Thanks for the recommendation! I gave macspice a try already and really wasn't impressed. LTSpice just has much better GUI support. I know it's a terrible thing to admit on HN, but when it comes to simulation models, a GUI is a really nice thing to have.
Pertinent to my comment about LTSpice - I have to give some credit to the folks at CircuitLab for giving me a line on their circuit sim software. Much easier to use than LTSpice, whose GUI is slow to the point of physical pain. I'll see about writing something more coherent about it in the near future. Stay tuned.
[CircuitLab developer.] Thanks so much Nash! If anyone reading this wants to give our software a spin, email me your CircuitLab username (mike at circuitlab dot com) in the next day or so and I'll hook you up with 1 year free of CircuitLab Pro.
Has the author swapped collectors and emitters in the first paragraph?
e: actually several times throughout the text it seems.
It appears so! D'oh. Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it.
Yep, reads much better now.
Very nice work! One minor edit: It's Horowitz and Hill.
Duh! I bet Hall is getting a ton of electronics interview requests now. I'm such a jerk. :) Thanks for pointing that out.