He means the original recordings. There were no digital recordings in 1880. Different apparatus, different methods. That’s the point

Ah, so a painfully obvious attempt at moving goalposts and showering people with bullshit.

I don’t think this is appropriate language

I'm sorry that you are offended.

How would you have phrased calling out an obvious, clumsy, and deliberate attempt to detail the conversation with obvious misdirection and mistruth?

You’re way off base . Not only inappropriate but irrelevant too

Got it, thanks for the poorly executed misdirection and misinformation.

They can speak for themselves, you and I don't really know what they want, or what they think counts as "raw" data.

Regardless, ascii encoding isn’t raw data. You’re making software engineer assumptions. Statistical noise is introduced 4-5 steps before the data is recorded digitally.

Even after it’s digitized, more noise is introduced through recording errors and normalization.

To understand the original distribution, the entire workflow needs to have been recorded