File:SoftRAM - The Story of the Incredible RAM Doubling Scam (A Retrospective)

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Back in 1995, Syncronys Softcorp released a product that had some very outlandish claims. It was known as SoftRAM, and it claimed to "double your memory" through the use of nothing but a software program. But it didn't take long for people to discover what the program actually did: Nothing.

German article I mentioned: https://web.archive.org/web/20050111011326/http://www.heise.de/ct/english/95/12/100/

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