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My first job out of college was at Casio in the PhoneMate division. They were the company responsible for commercializing the mass-market answering machine(https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1292439 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma...). By the time I was hired we were the largest buyer of TMS320 DSPs to use in our digital answering machine devices. We paired them with DRAMs which were QA rejects and used a 3rd party library to map out the bad regions to facilitate shipping a digital recording device in the 90s at consumer friendly prices.