Posted by Rick Merrill on 08/07/06 23:29

Alpha wrote:
> "meHomey" <me@home.com> wrote in message
> news:g9tvc2lqn24m0nievrqu030g9hutjo7mei@4ax.com...
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>>On 30 Jul 2006 17:51:09 -0700, "thehick" <thehick@canada.com> wrote:
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>>>>A EE will tell you ALL signals are "analog" ;-)
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>>>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
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>>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.
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> Don't be stupid. There were and are three state computers. They are not
> analog.
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>>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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heck, there are Hex computers; wait, maybe those are just for witches?

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