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Digital analog.

This flexible vinyl record shipped in the October 1973 issue of IEEE Spectrum to demo pulse code modulation (PCM) encoding and other variants of digital compression well before you ever downloaded your first MP3.

IEEE Spectrum has more information here on how they found the surviving copy and played it back.

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