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Article #20538Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
From: Rob Warnock
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 07:52
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 07:52
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In article <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
writes:
>board, and I made some comment about "Neat, they used a BNC connector for
>this," and he said "Yup. Berkeley Nuclear Corporation." And I said "oh is that
>what that stands for?" And he said "Absolutely." Take it for what it's worth.
Almost. Try "Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation". They still exist, are still
in Berkeley, CA, and make *extremely* high-precision pulse generators, pulse
gates, delay lines, and the like, as needed for doing high-energy physics.
Well... as needed for detecting the *results* of doing high-energy physics...
;-} ;-}
Rob Warnock
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdcad!rpw3 From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector Message-ID: <24231@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 27 Jan 89 07:52:18 GMT References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA Lines: 20