[BC] Finding NEMO (a remote possibility?)

[Donna Halper]

At 05:09 PM 11/9/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>I, too, have seen "NEMO" as a designation on equipment from the 40s and 
>50s. I suspect it stems from the Latin, "No One". We probably would all be 
>suspect of a label, "NOTHING" or "AUX", or "I don't have a name for this." 
>"NEMO" was short and would fit the space allocated.

Of all the stories spread about the origin of the word, this is the one 
most commonly cited, but while it makes a certain amount of sense, I have 
my doubts about it, for reasons I shall explain in my article!