Joseph Jacquard’s loom (digital) because you have to feed it a code (notecards) with punches. The punches can be read as binary numbers (Ones and Zeros) there are only two options. Punch or no punch. It is digital because the set number of possibilities are punch or no punch. The telegraph is digital because it works from a fixed set of possibilities, a dot or a dash to represent the information using morse code. Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch, is not digital. It is not digital because the original painting can never be replicated identically.
