Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Michael Katzmann Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Origin of Coax Connector Names: BNC & TNC Message-ID: <1903@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 89 16:10:27 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Michael Katzmann Organization: Rusty's BSD machine at home Lines: 38 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 557, message 6 of 11 In article <1852@accuvax.nwu.edu> rfarris@serene.UU.NET (Rick Farris) writes: In article <1787@accuvax.nwu.edu> GREEN@wharton.upenn.edu (Scott D. Green) writes: > ... that the BNC conncector is so named because it is a Berry Nice > Connector. I didn't see the original article to this but from what I remember it went: BNC : Bayonet Navy Connector. TNC : Threaded Navy Connector. N : Navy connector (Presumably) Perhaps the navy needed a better connector than the then standard UHF (sic) connector, considering the harsh corrosion environment. JONES : Jumble Of Numerious Efforts at Standardization (perhaps Apocryphal) (and we all know why an "F" connector was so named) email to UUCP: uunet!mimsy!{arinc,fe203}!vk2bea!michael _ _ _ _ Amateur | VK2BEA (Australia) ' ) ) ) / // Radio | G4NYV (United Kingdom) / / / o _. /_ __. _ // Stations| NV3Z (United States) / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_