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Article #15536Re: Origin of 'BNC'
From: Dave Cottingham
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:36
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:36
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In article <BzBMr3.E7K@world.std.com> dlowe@world.std.com (Miller Lowe) writes: >We have a raging debate going on at work with some folks beliving >that BNC stands for British Naval Connector.... While others(Like >me) say Bayonet-Neill-Concelman. Just to add one more piece of misinformation, when I was a grad student it was common knowledge that it stood for Berkeley Nuclear Corporation, the idea being that said company (if it ever existed) invented it and popularized it by making a lot of equipment that used it. But you know how far you can trust common knowledge. - Dave Cottingham dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!nsisrv!stars.gsfc.nasa.gov!dc From: dc@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) Subject: Re: Origin of 'BNC' Message-ID: <29DEC199216364024@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Keywords: BNC CONNECTORS HISTORY QUESTION Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: stars.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics References: <BzBMr3.E7K@world.std.com> <1992Dec17.201022.9979@tc.fluke.COM> <1992Dec29.025000.4192@cs.uri.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:36:00 GMT Lines: 13