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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!news.udel.edu!brahms.udel.edu!ghw
  2. From: ghw@brahms.udel.edu (George Watson)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.electronics
  4. Subject: Re: Question about origin of name of BNC connector
  5. Message-ID: <BuAIvr.Jzy@news.udel.edu>
  6. Date: 9 Sep 92 02:57:27 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep8.205843.12516@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BuA81s.6pp@scd.hp.com>
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  9. Organization: University of Delaware
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  13. In article <BuA81s.6pp@scd.hp.com> albert@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Albert Alcorn) writes:
  14. >lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu (lmbrown) writes:
  15. >: I think that the BNC stands for Bayonet Connector.  Can anyone confirm or
  16. >: disprove this?
  17. >: 
  18. >: 
  19. >The one I heard was:
  20. >
  21. >Bayonet Navy Connector
  22. >
  23. And certainly not the ``baby N'' connector as stated by
  24. Horowitz and Hill, pg 55! (A rare glitch in an excellent text.)
  25.  
  26.  
  27. -- 
  28. George Watson                  | 
  29. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy   |   Gosh darn the torpedos,
  30. University of Delaware         |     full speed ahead!
  31. ghw@brahms.udel.edu            |
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