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- From: johnh@macadam.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John Haddy)
- Subject: Re: Question about origin of name of BNC connector
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.070436.8478@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Keywords: BCN connector, name origin
- Sender: johnh@macadam (John Haddy)
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- Organization: Macquarie University
- References: <1992Sep8.205843.12516@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BuA98x.A7s@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:04:36 GMT
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- In article <BuA98x.A7s@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, das50852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dan) writes:
- |> lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu (lmbrown) writes:
- |>
- |> >I think that the BNC stands for Bayonet Connector. Can anyone confirm or
- |> >disprove this?
- |>
- |> I think so too. I have a lab manual that uses the two terms
- |> interchangeably. Whether or not BNC stands for BayoNet Connector,
- |> is something I don't know.
- |>
- The last time this was discussed at this forum, the most reliable response said
- that BNC stands for BAYONET - NEILL - CONCELMAN (the last two being the
- designers (?).
-
- By the way, if anybody Stateside or in Europe reads this, would you mind dropping
- me a note via email? I've posted a request to this group (a total of three times)
- recently, and haven't had any response (possibly due to it never having got past
- Sydney).
-
- p.s. don't use the header address, use the one below
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