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Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
Summary: Yet another
Message-ID: <1046@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 20:07:39 GMT
References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <2312@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington.
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From article <399@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, by kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline):
>> According to connector folklore, there were two guys at Bell Labs or maybe
>> it was MIT Rad Lab whose names started with N and C, and Mr. N invented

> 
> this," and he said "Yup. Berkeley Nuclear Corporation." And I said "oh is

A while back, I was talking to a sales engineer at Berkely Nucleonics, and he
told me that the BNC is a "Baby N Connector", a smaller version of the original
larger coaxial connectors.

Let's see how many different stories we can collect... :-)



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