If you've been following the recent saga of assembling the AVR->8088 adapter, you mighta caught that I did most of my calculations based on a 74S04 to delay (and invert) the clock input to the AVR so the timing would align properly...

Then, when assembling, I not only discovered that I have a *very* small supply of 74x04s, but no 74S04s. (I find both scenarios utterly surprising... Yah'd think I'd be pretty friggin' familiar with supplies I've had and used for 20+ years... But I guess that's the way things go these days).

So tonight, looking in "crap boxes" (or, in reverse and cropped: "AR-boxes", for those of a sensitive disposition, or those wondering why I've got so many boxes labelled "AR") for an old project, came across this:

74S04, the lone chip in the center of a huge slab of antistatic foam sitting right at the top of all that other un-foamed "crap."

I didn't see it before looking at the photo, but there seems to be a friggin' arrow pointing at it, too. Weee!

Well, I settled on the lone 74F04 I found in the sorted-7400s box, long before this discovery... and it seems to be doing the job, so I won't be changing it unless deemed necessary.