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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!lll-winken!quintro!bpdsun1!rmf
  2. From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.electronics
  4. Subject: Re: Origin of 'BNC'
  5. Keywords: BNC CONNECTORS HISTORY QUESTION
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233824.24623@bpdsun1.uucp>
  7. Date: 30 Dec 92 23:38:24 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec17.201022.9979@tc.fluke.COM> <1992Dec29.025000.4192@cs.uri.edu> <29DEC199216364024@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  9. Organization: Harris Allied Broadcast Div., Quincy, IL
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  12. Here is a posting from years ago:
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  18. The origin of the `BNC' acronym *ought* to be an FAQ -- it gets asked
  19. frequently enough.
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  21. It's Bayonet Neill-Concelman, after the two engineers that designed
  22. it.
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  24. `TNC', by the way, is Threaded Neill-Concelman.
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  26. The idea that it's `Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation' is an urban legend.
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