The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users

In the mid-1990s, as computers became more powerful, software demanded more memory — but RAM was expensive and intimidating to upgrade. Most users weren’t comfortable opening their computers, let alone installing new hardware. At around 13, I was already taking systems apart and putting them back together, but I was the only person I knew upgrading RAM. For the average user, a quick software fix sounded much more appealing.