Actually, no I did not "abandon them". I very carefully saved my wallet.dat and moved on to other things. Thanks for your reply though =/
wish u luck
could become a legendary story
same as
how i did buy 2 pizzas for 20000 BTC and they didnt even taste special
how i did manage to recover my DMD Diamond from 2013 and became a happy man
Bro there is only like a $6,722,079 marketcap on this coin....... so um yeah wont be a story like lazlo.... might buy a few actual pizzas though

You guys are really welcoming to early users of this coin <3 ... to be clear, I mined tons and tons of different coins in those days. We never got fully involved with any one coin. I probably have dats from most of the early coins. I was just going after these ones now for fun. I think I may even have an old copy of bc on saved drive somewhere so its all good. Thanks for the responses though.
I hope you will be happy with your crates of beer that you bought with the money from the sale of DMD.
It is not necessary to open the door to the future for people who do not care about this coin.