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Article #20630Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
From: Alan Lorimer
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 16:34
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 16:34
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In a former incarnation when working for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), I was involved in building TV studios and Radio Stations. Having spent the odd afternoon inserting several hundreds of these things I became convinced that BNC stood for Bloody Nasty Connector.:-) Alan -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Alan G. Lorimer, Strathclyde University, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH. UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!al DARPA: al%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs JANET: al@uk.ac.strath.cs
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!ames!haven!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!al From: al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector Message-ID: <1319@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: 1 Feb 89 16:34:57 GMT References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <2312@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Reply-To: al@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland. Lines: 11