• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Oh you kids today. We used to lock computer cases in research labs because of RAM theft in the early 2000s. It’s still relatively cheap.

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      16 hours ago

      I remember one time in the early 90s we fried my friends dad’s ram in a proprietary IBM by mixing with another computer. Nowadays I understand it was likely a voltage mismatch. It cost him thousands. He was Scottish and I have never seen a man turn so red in my life.