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The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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What a throwback! It's amazing that we can now simply download more ram.
Came into the thread just looking for that and was not disappointed!
A measly $10 rebate?!? How about a full refund?
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.
Good. As soon as I read the title, I thought of RAM Doubler and wondered if young me was a sucker for buying it!
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.
Remember the free cupholder exe that opened your CD ROM drive? ;)
That reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Daily WTF articles:
Remember 'Stacker'?
Could triple the size of your hard drive.
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.
I remember this. Everyone was installing it. “Now I have 8 gigs of ram!” Weeee
*MB
O yeah. How quickly I fogor. 16 whole megs of ram? I’ll never need that much!
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
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time...