wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (06/09/89)
Hi, I've been wondering for a while about what BNC, as in BNC connector, really stands for. I've checked my reference books, which do indeed offer illustrations of the ubiquitous little connector, but that is it. I'd be willing to take a stab at, "Bayonet N.... Connector". Similarly, TNC for, "Threaded N.... Connector". Larry or Henry?... In the least 25 years, it never occured to me to wonder what if anything BNC stood for, until one of our grad students asked me recently. Bill email to: wtm@impulse.UUCP
dag@hp-lsd.HP.COM (David Geiser) (06/12/89)
BNC = Baby "N" Connector
myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) (06/15/89)
NOOO!!!!!!! NOT AGAIN! Not the dreaded "what does BNC mean?" string!
I thought we went through all this just a few months ago!
Oh well, better just settle back and wait for the flood of conflicting
responses....
Before you post one, though, is it a "definition" that isn't on the list
below (culled from memory of the previous go-round):
Baby "N" Connector
Bayonet "N" Connector
Bayonet Navy Connector
Any combination of names beginning with "B" and "N", supposedly the
inventors/designers/first users of such a connector.
A much more important question to ask, at this point, is why on Earth anyone
would CARE what "BNC" stands for? Tell you what - I'll make up a whole
NEW definition right here and now, and we can all simply decide that, from
this moment forth, "BNC" stands for:
Burgeoning Net Commentary!
There, now don't you feel better with this settled, so we can go on about
our *real* business here (that of building 75 kV stun guns and looking for
missing Joules :-)).
Bob Myers KC0EW HP Graphics Tech. Div.| Opinions expressed here are not
Ft. Collins, Colorado | those of my employer or any other
myers%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com | sentient life-form on this planet.R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com (06/16/89)
not again... :-)
If this is anything like the last time this question was asked (about a
year ago), it should keep the net busy for almost a month... :-)
I don't think they ever really settled it then.....................
R. Tim Coslet
Usenet: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
BIX: r.tim_coslet opsowens@sunybcs.uucp (William Owens) (06/22/89)
I know, I know, who cares what it means? But I happened to see this just a
few days ago, so I couldn't resist. According to the Black Box Pocket
Glossary of communications stuff, the following is the derivation of 'BNC':
N connector - named after Paul Neill
C connector - named after Carl Concelman
TNC connector - Threaded Neill-Concelman
BNC connector - Bayonet Neill-Concelman
But they do say that the origins are 'said to be' such :)
I've never heard of a C connector, nor either of those guys, am I
missing something?
Please, if you have to flame, email me. I'm wasting enough bandwidth as is.
Bill.
p.s. - the glossary is pretty useful, and I think I only paid $1 for it...
Bill Owens opsowens@marvin.cs.buffalo.edu
opnowens@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
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