> I had an unpleasant experience about 30 years ago (yeah, before the web 
> existed and you had to use printed databooks...) with a comparator because I 
> failed to read the datasheet correctly. I didn't realize it had an open-drain 
> output, and I nearly went berserk trying to figure out why the bloody thing's 
> output never went high. After adding a pullup resistor I got the output to go 
> high, but it wasn't a nice sharp edge.

Ah, the LM339!  I made the exact same mistake, about 18 years back.  I even 
wrote it up in my blog at the time:

http://madbodger.livejournal.com/75916.html

- John

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