[Simh] NH14 and TR01

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 27, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Timothe Litt <litt at 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