Quote from: DutchNed on December 01, 2017, 05:31:58 PM

Somewhere around 2009 or 2010 I bought a small amount of BTC.

If this is true: Bitcoin was worth $0.30 at most at the end of 2010. Before that, it was much cheaper. If you really bought a "small amount", I assume you mean you spend a few dollars on it. That means you could be looking at tens or hundreds of Bitcoins.

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It should be worth at least a few hundreds of dollars.

Considering you've had them since 2009 or 2010, you could also be looking at millions of dollars! This brings me to the next thing: do not trust your computer to enter a potentially huge amount of money in a hot wallet!

Quote from: DutchNed on December 01, 2017, 05:49:34 PM

At the time it was worth 10 dollars or less

My first assumption was right: depending on when you bought them you could indeed be looking at many millions of dollars now.

Quote from: DutchNed on December 01, 2017, 05:59:47 PM

Thanks all. Something came up but I will try it later today, and let you know if it worked.

We see threads like this more often lately, since Bitcoin has been in the news a lot because of it's price increases.

My advice to start: don't import your private key yet, as long as it's on paper, it's safe. Check your public address (the one starting with a 1, and most likely 34 characters long) on a block explorer such as https://blockchain.info/. Just enter it in the search field.
Don't enter your (longer) private key by mistake!

If your address indeed holds several to hundreds of Bitcoins, make a plan from there. Think about what you want to do with them, where to send them, and how to do this. You can for instance import the address on an offline device, and create transactions from there. You'll want to make accounts at trusted exchanges to sell some, get a hardware wallet to store some, and you'll need some time to arrange all this.
As long as your private key is offline, you're safe. Of course there is a chance your computer is just safe, but with an amount that could potentially be this large, I wouldn't take that gamble.