Hey, thank you both for the response! I've caught up enough to know it's worth the time. It's kind of bewildering to me that something from back then that just struck me as an interesting idea could be so valuable now.

So this private key (or these private keys) I am looking for I imagine will be some value saved somewhere in bitcoin related files on my old hardware? Sorry it has been a long time since I've looked into any of this. I guess I'm just asking what exactly I should be looking for when I go look?