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Double Your Disk Capacity!

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sharkeeper

Lifer
Look what I found!

Anyone remember this junk?

MS had their own called doublespace in MS DOS 6.0 I believe.

Man does that bring back memories.

Now you can compress your disk in WinXP with a right click. Dunno if I'd do that though.
 
Yeah I remember that. I tried the MSDos one in the early/mid 90's and remember having to just format the entire machine without that option on 🙂
 
oh yeah, stacker, double space, etc... the good old days...

now you just buy extra 400 gb ide drive and be done with it.. haha
 
I had alot of dumb friends who tried it, for half of them it worked but everything slowed down to a crawl and for the other half it didnt work....

... stupid stupid idea
 
RAMDoubler was a joke too. But when you're paying $10 a meg for disk space and $20 a meg for RAM, snakeoil starts looking pretty good...
 
haha I doublespaced back in the day.

When I was like 8 I deleted the compressed partition on the "real" drive on my parents computer. They didn't like it.
 
Originally posted by: Deeko
haha I doublespaced back in the day.

When I was like 8 I deleted the compressed partition on the "real" drive on my parents computer. They didn't like it.
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You deleted their pr0n collection, all 2Mb of it.
 
Ram doublers never really did work.

Well there was a ram compression feature in QEMM97 for Win9x. It did free up physical memory but the overhead was well shall we say overwhelming?

A program called SoftRAM95 did absolutely NOTHING and the company was sued and lost the class action lawsuit. Of course the sharks benefit from those...

I remember those ads: "I have 4MB of RAM and Windows (95) needs 8MB. Why spend hundreds on hard ram when $29 for soft ram does the same!" So now we have spam and spyware. Funny how things change. The more things change the more they stay the same.
 
I remember using it on my CD-ROM-sized Seagate 20MB hard drives..

That.. and QEMM, Quarterdeck, and some other DOS utility that let me run multiple instances of DOS..
 
Originally posted by: Sabot
Wasn't there a trick a little while ago that would let you double your drive capacity on hard drives today?
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Don't remember if it was actually double, but for a while some hard drive manufacturer was selling the exact same drive as different size models. If you bought one of the smaller ones there was some method of unlocking the rest of the space.
 
AAAAHHHHHHHH!! :Q

I remember that EVIL PIECE OF CRAP. It worked "ok" up until you had drive issues. Then you were just plain hosed.

Dave
 
I lost everything once thanks to "DoubleSpace" or whatever the hell it was.

In the middle of a game of NHL 1992 while Joe Nieuwendyk was flying down the right wing. 🙁 Everything just froze, and... 🙁 gone forever.
 
Originally posted by: Apathetic
I remember that EVIL PIECE OF CRAP. It worked "ok" up until you had drive issues. Then you were just plain hosed.
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Yep. And don't ever try to use an "ordinary" disk-defragmenter on it. Oh no, Lord help you if you ever did.

Btw, I used Stacker for a while on my 386 w/120MB HD, it actually worked pretty well, and didn't have a lot of extra overhead, unlike MS's inferior stolen copy-cat imitation. What was really elite, though, was the hardware Stacker IDE controller/accelerator. Real-time ~2X data-compression, on-the-fly. 🙂
 
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