Path: utzoo!mnetor!jim
From: jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
Message-ID: <4898@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 16:14:18 GMT
References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <2312@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <6918@fluke.COM> <2987@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <2987@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>In article <6918@fluke.COM>, strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:

>> }BNC = Baby N Connector.
>> }TNC = Threaded N Connector.

>> BNC = Bayonet Navy Connector
>> TNC = Threaded Navy Connector

>	I'm not certain that anyone posting on this topic has been correct.

I recall a TA at school saying it was British National Connector.
BUT, my memory is pretty fuzzy and the guy was a goof!

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