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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: What (if anything) does BNC mean?
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Date: 14 Jun 89 17:46:18 GMT
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NOOO!!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!  Not the dreaded "what does BNC mean?" string!
I thought we went through all this just a few months ago!


Oh well, better just settle back and wait for the flood of conflicting
responses....

Before you post one, though, is it a "definition" that isn't on the list
below (culled from memory of the previous go-round):

Baby "N" Connector
Bayonet "N" Connector
Bayonet Navy Connector
Any combination of names beginning with "B" and "N", supposedly the
inventors/designers/first users of such a connector.


A much more important question to ask, at this point, is why on Earth anyone
would CARE what "BNC" stands for?  Tell you what - I'll make up a whole
NEW definition right here and now, and we can all simply decide that, from
this moment forth, "BNC" stands for:

              Burgeoning Net Commentary!

There, now don't you feel better with this settled, so we can go on about
our *real* business here (that of building 75 kV stun guns and looking for
missing Joules :-)).


Bob Myers  KC0EW   HP Graphics Tech. Div.|  Opinions expressed here are not
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