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From: otto@nicmad.UUCP (Douglas Otto)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
Message-ID: <3703@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 01:01:14 GMT
References: <5770015@hpscdc.HP.COM> <2312@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <9432@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <11581@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <6918@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: otto@nicmad.UUCP (Douglas Otto)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp.  Madison, WI
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In article <6918@fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:
|In article <11581@ihlpa.ATT.COM> pdg@ihlpa.UUCP (Paul D. Guthrie) writes:
|}BNC = Baby N Connector.
|}TNC = Threaded N Connector.
|WRONG! WRONG!  
|BNC = Bayonet Navy Connector
|TNC = Threaded Navy Connector

To throw another data point into this discussion, the latest issue 
of "TPT/Networking Management" magazine defines

BNC = Bayonet Neill Concelman

Make of this what you will.
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