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- From: dc@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham)
- Subject: Re: Origin of 'BNC'
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:36:00 GMT
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- In article <BzBMr3.E7K@world.std.com> dlowe@world.std.com (Miller Lowe) writes:
- >We have a raging debate going on at work with some folks beliving
- >that BNC stands for British Naval Connector.... While others(Like
- >me) say Bayonet-Neill-Concelman.
-
- Just to add one more piece of misinformation, when I was a grad student
- it was common knowledge that it stood for Berkeley Nuclear Corporation,
- the idea being that said company (if it ever existed) invented it and
- popularized it by making a lot of equipment that used it. But you know
- how far you can trust common knowledge.
-
- - Dave Cottingham
- dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov
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