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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 个月前

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 个月前
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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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    RAM Doubler for Mac actually did work as advertised though and this has probably been a contributing factor to the number of people falling for the scam.

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      Yes, I do remember this RAM compression software. It was like magic. When my mom installed it on our Mac I didn’t believe her at first until I hopped on and used the computer.

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      Good. As soon as I read the title, I thought of RAM Doubler and wondered if young me was a sucker for buying it!

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      zram also works on modern Linux systems.

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