Iggy Drougge wrote:
  What? My local electronics shop owner tells me that it
isn't as high-profile
 nowadays, but it's quite possible to buy 74 series circuits in any good
 electronics shop, right? 
74x00's are still common - I still can get that at Radio-shack for $2.00
in a bubble
package here in Canada.  It is rare chips ALU's, carry look aheads, 16x4
memory
that you can't find. The $.10 surplus TTL days are long gone. Ben
Franchuk.
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