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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months ago

The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users

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The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users

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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months ago
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SoftRAM promised to double your RAM, but became one of the biggest tech scams of the 90s. Here’s how Syncronys fooled hundreds of thousands of user
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    Remember ‘Stacker’?
    Could triple the size of your hard drive.

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      There was DoubleSpace, which compressed your files in DOS so you could allocate more memory to programs that needed it. It’s interesting that when trying to run old games on modern hardware sometimes there isn’t enough conventional memory because computing shifted into RAM based systems.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace?useskin=vector

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