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Whats with people calling all non-digital things analog?
Real photos are now analog photos as opposed to digital photos. Wired magazine is calling a model railroad “an analog sims”.
“Digital” means that something – a voice, a picture, for example, has been digitised, ie, turned into numbers. Usually quite a lot of numbers. It can then be transmitted and saved with minimal loss of quality. It also allows the use clever arithmetic to make the thing smaller, regenerate it, find patterns in it, and so on.
“Analogue” means that something (a light level, a sound pressure) is represented by something else (a density of silver in a photograph, a voltage leaving a microphone). There are no numbers, just a smooth, continuous variation of one thing as it follows another. But this “following” won’t be exact – there will always be errors, noise, limits to the working range (saturation) and so on.
So nearly all real-world things, when they are to be transmitted or stored, start life as analogue signals. If they never get digitised, one could call them “analogue”. A model can be an analogue of a real-life (”prototype”) railway or aircraft: the “analogue” conversion then is from one length to another, often smaller length. The model can simulate the real thing, to a different scale. So that usage is justified, if a bit unusual.
In summary, if something is “digital”, it simply means that it has been digitised somewhere in the chain. It usualy gets converted back to analogue before being viewed, heard, or felt.
Elephants & Trains Magazine
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3 RAILROAD MAGAZINE’S MIXED 60′S & 80′S $3.99 |
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PEP MAGAZINE – GRAND FUNK RAILROAD $35.00 |
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RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 1983 $7.50 |
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OOR MAGAZINE – GRAND FUNK RAILROAD $35.00 |
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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine December 1952 Good $4.88 |
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12 X 18 Stretched Canvas Poster Railroad Magazine: The Virginian, 1952 $49.99 This image is one a collection of vintage art, this excellent quality and durable Canvas Print measures 12 X 18 inches and arrives ready to hang on the wall with all necessary accessories already in place. The Canvas Print is stretched over a sturdy wood frame for maximum stability and tautness. Canvas prints are Gallery Wrapped. This means that the image will go around the edge of the stretched… |
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12 X 18 Stretched Canvas Poster Railroad Magazine, Freight Through the Wilderness, 1942 $49.99 This image is one a collection of vintage art, this excellent quality and durable Canvas Print measures 12 X 18 inches and arrives ready to hang on the wall with all necessary accessories already in place. The Canvas Print is stretched over a sturdy wood frame for maximum stability and tautness. Canvas prints are Gallery Wrapped. This means that the image will go around the edge of the stretched… |
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12 X 18 Stretched Canvas Poster Railroad Magazine: A B&O Wood-Burner, 1942 $49.99 This image is one a collection of vintage art, this excellent quality and durable Canvas Print measures 12 X 18 inches and arrives ready to hang on the wall with all necessary accessories already in place. The Canvas Print is stretched over a sturdy wood frame for maximum stability and tautness. Canvas prints are Gallery Wrapped. This means that the image will go around the edge of the stretched… |
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Paste Magazine New Music Sampler #44 July 2008 1. izza kizza – red wine 2. morning jacket – i’m amazed 3. alejandro escovedo – always a friend 4. katie herzig – hologram 5. darker my love – two ways out 6. my brightest diamond – inside a boy 7. the death set – around the world 8. the submarines – you me and the bourgeousie 9. hayden – where and when 10. railroad earth – hard livin 11. aimee mann 12. priscilla ahn – dream 13. amos lee – listen … |
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New Country – June 1994 $3.99 Exclusive CD available from New Country Magazine. Assorted Artists…. |