Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!kz08+ From: kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ken Zuroski) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Analog Signal on Floppy Drives? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jul 90 16:36:58 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 31 Hi: First of all, I'm not a technical person, so please forgive any inappropriate terminology I might use or any other such denseness on my part. I heard on the radio the other day that instead of using conventional cassette tapes to store commercials and other such clipettes, radio DJ's are beginning to use 3.5 inch microdiskettes instead. It was my understanding from the news I heard that the information was not stored digitally, but rather was analog, much like conventional cassette tapes. The advantage in doing things this way was that they could program a computer (I think they mentioned a macintosh) to play clipettes at appropriate times, do special effects, etc. Can anyone tell me if this is a common thing, that is, storing analog information (or rather, storing information in analog) on media conventionally used to store digital info? Obviously the hardware needed to read/store such analog information would differ from conventional disk drives; does anyone know which manufactures make such equipment? Also: storing a song or a picture in analog takes up much less media space compared to digital, is that not true? (Of course at the expense of many other things, I am aware . . . .). Thank you for reading and for any information you can give me. --Ken Zuroski