> On Feb 27, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Timothe Litt <l...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> ...
> CSS was also in Merimack. And the design engineer for this device was,
> at last report, located there. That's why I
> wrote CSS in MK rather than Nashua.
Interesting...
> ...
> Pulse Height Analysis was the category assigned to the N class part
> numbers way back. The vocabulary was different
> then. DEC modules included Pulse Amplifiers and Pulse delay lines. The
> KA10 was built with asynchronous logic
> (no clock). It's more likely that the name came from that - but I don't
> know. It's actually quite odd that the NH14
> ended up there, as A* was used for DA/AD converters. It's possible that
> someone slipped NH as a play on the
> state past the chief engineer's office. Or it's possible that you're
> on the right track and the application area
> was one of the national labs.
I would guess a simpler explanation: the application area is nuclear physics,
so N may simply be "nuclear".
paul
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