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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.

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Herb Alpert
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: March 31
Actor
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LA
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