When we were 'dealers', a CD writer was a luxury only kids whose Dads had offices in their homes had. It was UUUBER luxury to have both a ROM and a burner, and only a handful had access to these. So we had to befriend someone with the hardware to make copies of those 'gold' discs that come our way. Not easy, especially if the guy we befriended was a squealer! Oh yea, flash drives were 128MB and only the geeks had 256MB. Needless to say, there weren't interested in lending us blacklisters their flash drives!