Geoff Wood wrote:

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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Did anyone actually anwer the original question?

Yes. It's a part designation. It doesn't have to mean anything, and
apparently it doesn't, thought it seems to be in the same family as
the part designation for other connectors that have some similarities.

Like the popular IC, the 5534. What does that mean?

But "XLR" looks as if it might be an initialization. 5534 doesn't and
isn't.

And the 'NE' before '5534' definitely is .

NE is / was the standard prefix used by Signetics for linear ICs.

No idea what that stands for. No Equivalent ? he joked. At least National's
LM stands for Linear Monolithic.


Graham