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Same. There's a human need for sensations / stimulations / details that made the pre-digital era very satisfying and touching. Last time I booted a pentium box, to fix an old tape drive I was staggered by how lovely that old device felt. The led, the smooth motor hiss, the read patterns. Felt so cool even in the era of nvme ssd.


Compact Discs are digital.


the electromechanical device reading them is not


It's not like network cables (physical objects) and radio waves (physical phenomena) are digital either.


we were discussing the supporting devices of that era, not the underlying principles




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