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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
Message-ID: <24231@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 89 07:52:18 GMT
References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
writes:
>board, and I made some comment about "Neat, they used a BNC connector for
>this," and he said "Yup. Berkeley Nuclear Corporation." And I said "oh is that
>what that stands for?" And he said "Absolutely." Take it for what it's worth.

Almost. Try "Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation". They still exist, are still
in Berkeley, CA, and make *extremely* high-precision pulse generators, pulse
gates, delay lines, and the like, as needed for doing high-energy physics.
Well... as needed for detecting the *results* of doing high-energy physics...
;-} ;-}


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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