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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