Thanks for the help. That's actually what I ended up doing ralgith, no sense screwing around with a computer that is pretty much worthless and would have resulted in a lot of headaches. So I picked up ...
So I downloaded the 7.21 version of zMUD, installed it and set my registration to it. When I try to load it up I get an error message saying Chars: Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset.
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