17 Jul
1998
17 Jul
'98
12:47 p.m.
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
The origin of the name 'BNC' is unclear. There are many folk etymologies
and I believe the definitive word is that it doesn't necessarily stand for
anything.
Another popular expansion is "Bayonet Nut Connect".
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The BNC is
short for BayoNet Connector, meaning it's like some of the old snap on
Entire articles have been written on the name of the BNC (and the related
TNC) connector.
I believe that the 'N' and 'C' stand for the names of the designers -
it's Bayonet Neil Concelman or something like that. TNC is the threaded
version, screw lock.