Sure, that’s what analog-to-digital means in electronics, but what does it mean in cognitive science?
IDK that answer but Hutchins makes it clear what he means in the book.
Here’s link to the pdf version:
An alt-F search for “analog” tells the story. Hutchins says an analog to digital conversion is made when something is measured.
When mooring if the vessel speed looks too fast by eye that’s analog, if the Doppler log is used that’s digital.
From the book here’s an example of an analog-to-digital conversion…
Here a chart is described as a (non-mechanical) analog computer.
When the bearing (digital) is plotted on the chart it’s a digital-to-analog conversion. If the course is computed using the chart and then converted to a number (analog-to digital) the gyro can then be used to convert that number to analog by sighting down that bearing out the window (digital-to-analog).