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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 20:07
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From article <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, by kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline):
>> According to connector folklore, there were two guys at Bell Labs or maybe
>> it was MIT Rad Lab whose names started with N and C, and Mr. N invented
>
> this," and he said "Yup. Berkeley Nuclear Corporation." And I said "oh is
A while back, I was talking to a sales engineer at Berkely Nucleonics, and he
told me that the BNC is a "Baby N Connector", a smaller version of the original
larger coaxial connectors.
Let's see how many different stories we can collect... :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lll-winken!uunet!uvm-gen!punia From: punia@uvm-gen.UUCP (Card 54...) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector Summary: Yet another Message-ID: <1046@uvm-gen.UUCP> Date: 27 Jan 89 20:07:39 GMT References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <2312@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. Lines: 20