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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] p1mrx 6 points 3 days ago

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember the free cupholder exe that opened your CD ROM drive? ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Daily WTF articles:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a throwback! It's amazing that we can now simply download more ram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time...

[–] Unforeseen 6 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember 'Stacker'?
Could triple the size of your hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember this. Everyone was installing it. “Now I have 8 gigs of ram!” Weeee

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

O yeah. How quickly I fogor. 16 whole megs of ram? I’ll never need that much!

[–] Willy 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

A measly $10 rebate?!? How about a full refund?