Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signaturewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1262arrow-down118cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1244arrow-down1external-linkThieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signaturewww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareLumpyPancakes@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 days agoReminds me of when students used to pull the 5¼" floppy drive blanking plates off PC’s, reach inside and steal the RAM.
minus-squareveroxii@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoWell. Memory was like $100 per megabyte, and the computers in the university lab had 8. But would run fine on 4.
Reminds me of when students used to pull the 5¼" floppy drive blanking plates off PC’s, reach inside and steal the RAM.
Well. Memory was like $100 per megabyte, and the computers in the university lab had 8. But would run fine on 4.