analog adventures

Hard Copy

ERIC P. NICHOLS

I occasionally think about things – it’s an activity I highly recommend. One of the things I recently thought about was the issue of whether a book (you know, one of those stacks of paper with symbols made of ink impressed upon the sheets) is an analog or a digital device. Because a book is old technology, one is naturally inclined to put it in the category of analog technology, which is nearly synonymous with old. However, since books are, for the most part, written in black and white, there is generally a strict demarcation between where ink exists and where ink does not exist, which implies that they are some-what digital in nature. Despite being sort of a high-tech guy, I like books. Lots of them. This is not…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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