Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Scott D. Green" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Origin of Coax Connector Names: BNC & TNC Message-ID: <1787@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 02:54:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 6 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 550, message 11 of 12 The legend, as told by a foreign-born professor of electrical engineering here at Penn, is that the BNC conncector is so named because it is a Berry Nice Connector. Scott Green