Re: A word

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:31:07 +0000 (UTC), abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Anthony de
Boer - USEnet) wrote:

>Various sources, and we had at least two sources of BNC connectors; the
>good ones needed a real crimper, while the bad ones were meant for
>toolless installation and were the usual cause of broken segments.

Then there's the intermediate, that needs a soldering iron for the signal
pin but screws on the shield.

>Yeah, it sucked, all technology sucked, but a combination of the fact
>it was overengineered steel quite unlike today's plastic crud, the fact
>that I established my BOFH credentials back in that era, and the usual
>rose-tinted rearview mirrors lead to a tad of nostalgia.

BNC was, and still is, used for connections between frequency generators,
Devices Under Test, and oscilloscopes. Admittedly that's usually the good
BNC, but if the connector itself was a crappy design they'd surely have
moved on now.

Right? Right?


Jasper
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