Well $200 AUD even at 0.9c gets you 2222.22 BTC. Then times that 100K AUD. So I guess that's worst case for 2010 without taking into consideration any exchange rates that based on the 0.003c day pizza guy bought his pizzas, 0.03c two weeks after he bought them & 0.09c at the end of the year.

Mnemonics is not a factor. Words were given to recover password. Not the "wallet".

Gone off wallets. Can't be Multibit, can't be Electrum, can't be Amroury. Bitcoin Client maybe but as far as I know the blockchain had to be downloaded to open a wallet (or so I've read) which i dont think ever took place on the work desktop. No mnemonic or series of words for password recovery were ever given on that platform either.

This leads be to believe there way have been another way to store the coins. For some reason a remember some sort of "vault" where either the private keys were locked in a password protected vault by them selves or many even with a coin balance. 8 words I selected to encrypted the vault.

If this was the case this is where paper way come into play aswell..I'm playing a massive game of catch up. Spent two weeks looking in to "wallet" recovery. Hard to find info on the early days.

The search on old 1TB Seagate drive copy came back negative for wallet.dat. Was hoping there may be other searches possible for private keys or vault program. Going through every file one by one with unhide files selected for the drive.

Tomorrow I'm off on a treasure hunt...so just hope luck is on my side.