So let's say it was before version .4, how did the security work back then?  Though I am aware of the possibility that someone already hacked into it and stole the coins that were in it.  So it could be that I go through the trouble but only get to glean an education in bitcoin and how the BitCoin implementation of blockchain works.  I'm not easily finding documentation from that long ago.  There are more details I can think of but I'm not sure how much I should post.