retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 7 days 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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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 7 days ago

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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- The Real King Gordon@lemmy.world
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  O yeah. How quickly I fogor. 16 whole megs of ram? I’ll never need that much!
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    Yeah it was crazy how much it grew for a while and then about 15 years ago it stopped at 32gigs and still seems stuck there