Kind of interesting how analog media is still the best archival media. Throw your data on a stone tablet it's going to last 10,000 years.
Punch cards that are laser cut from metal would probably outlast stone tablets.
The true difference between digital and “analogue” lies in the nature of the representation and interpretation of information, that is whether they are descriptions (symbolic) or analogies. The shape of the groove on a phonograph record is an analogy of a sound wave signal. The pits in a compact disc represent numerals which give a description of the amplitude of a signal at a given point in time.