It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
-- Herb Alpert
   
Herb Alpert   Name:
Herb Alpert
Type:
Musician
Nationality:
American
Birth:
March 31, 1935
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