Posted by Alpha on 08/06/06 06:54

"meHomey" <me@home.com> wrote in message
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> 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.


Don't be stupid. There were and are three state computers. They are not
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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