I am Privateer. The inside story of an SH3 Modder

Jeff-Groves · 12-28-17, 04:05 PM

I did my time and after discharge? I again connected with past contacts.
I was driving up and down the east coast at the time and We hatched a plan.
We started checking out some really big Companys and used old tactics.
It wasn't long that by dumpster diving we had floppy disks full of information!
Most floppies back then were of the 8 inch type and they'd cut them with scissors thinking they were destroyed!
We became experts at Data recovery with those disks. We also made alot of money to see that that data was never released!
Some of us ended up in the business of data recovery or data protection.

Still it wasn't enough for me.
I found an electronics surplus store near me that had rooms full of old computer stuff!
It was like walking into Fort Knoxs to me! The parts, on thier own, were worthless.
With all I knew and the years of manuals I had gathered?
It didn't take me long to assembly junk into working Units.
As nearly no one wiped drives back then? I soon had a data base that shamed a bunch of Companies out of some nice change.
Make it go away and I'll pay was easy money back then but we were smart enough to know that would never last forever.
I, like many others, retired from that sort of business as the ropes grew tighter.
Get out while the getting is good we decided.

12-28-17, 04:05 PM	#12
Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,651 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	I did my time and after discharge? I again connected with past contacts. I was driving up and down the east coast at the time and We hatched a plan. We started checking out some really big Companys and used old tactics. It wasn't long that by dumpster diving we had floppy disks full of information! Most floppies back then were of the 8 inch type and they'd cut them with scissors thinking they were destroyed! We became experts at Data recovery with those disks. We also made alot of money to see that that data was never released! Some of us ended up in the business of data recovery or data protection. Still it wasn't enough for me. I found an electronics surplus store near me that had rooms full of old computer stuff! It was like walking into Fort Knoxs to me! The parts, on thier own, were worthless. With all I knew and the years of manuals I had gathered? It didn't take me long to assembly junk into working Units. As nearly no one wiped drives back then? I soon had a data base that shamed a bunch of Companies out of some nice change. Make it go away and I'll pay was easy money back then but we were smart enough to know that would never last forever. I, like many others, retired from that sort of business as the ropes grew tighter. Get out while the getting is good we decided. Last edited by Jeff-Groves; 12-28-17 at 04:25 PM.