NMGLUGers, thank you al for the responses, I want to WINE a little. I am using wine on an irregular basis to print greeting cards and some other tacky graphics projects from a W-8 era set of CDs called "Print Artist." The graphics are not current, they weren't then, but I find them usable. My first trial with wine did not work. I set up directories and followed instructions. I eventually found a helper unit, but I do not have that handy in my human memory. Current wine associated packages are: wine, wine32:i386, wine32-preloader:i386 and libwine:i386. these are necessary due to the age (32-bit) of the program I run under wine. The real key item is called "playonlinux" which is a front end for wine. That 'helper' package got the kinks ironed out and I have a consistent experience with my one ancient program. One can actually do similar printing of cards and such in LibreOffice, but I kept the disks and have the graphics library on hand with a kind of index. So, take a look at playonlinux, and note that you may be needing a 32-bit environment for legacy programs. My OS is Debian 12, 64-bit.
I don't recommend units as old as 12 years, but this one in hand had few scars and a 64-bit processor. It is too hot and slow to use too much, but may be good to pass on to someone in need. So bring an old laptop, if it is 64-bit and see what can be done; or a 5 year old, multi-core 64-bit unit that can pack in more ram - that is usually a good place to start. But one must be able to add ram, a newer disk or ssd. Some of the "thin" books are too tricky or soldered into a fixed configuration.
Hope to see you on Thursday. Thank you, Ted P