Posted by meHomey on 11/15/85 11:54

On 30 Jul 2006 17:51:09 -0700, "thehick" <thehick@canada.com> wrote:

>
>> A EE will tell you ALL signals are "analog" ;-)
>i think techj is so complivated now, some of the old terms
>do not apply. for instance, is dvd digital? really? i don't
>see it that way. zillions of errors corrected in the hardware
>and different errors depending on compatibility
>between writer/reader and reflectivity? doesn't sound like
>what we usually mean when we say "digital".
>...thehick

All digital storage has some analog nature to it. If the information
stored has only two values represented, it is digital. Three or more
possible values at each storage location is analog.

When they try to recover prevoiusly written and then erased data on a
hard drive, they are looking at the analog level of each bit.

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