Driving multiple circuits with one 386 chip

[timd]

I'm new to driving more than one circuit off the same 386 chip. Let's say I want to drive a 555 timer and a 40106 chip with the 386 IC. Do I simply take a separate wire from the output of the 386 to each chip input, or does that effectively divide the ouput by 2? Do I need 2 386 chips for this purpose?

[PRR]

Pretend the '386 is a power-company.

Pretend the 555 and 40106 are lamps.

You just attach each lamp to power-company wire. Each lamp gets the full 120V.

[timd]

You couldn't have put it better than that. Thanks!