1995...or there abouts..

Michael Peterson, President of Strategic Research Corporation said, "Norris Communications' `Flashback' technology is at least two years ahead of the competition. Their implementation of flash memory as a primary storage device for voice and sound recording has already broken through all of the barriers which others have not yet discovered. The decision to license the technology is excellent and clearly a market expansion move. `Flashback' is poised to become the key, unlocking voice as a computer data type."

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