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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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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    What a throwback! It’s amazing that we can now simply download more ram.

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      Came into the thread just looking for that and was not disappointed!

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