>for me installing Zorin was good enough to run vfp, Office97

I went with USB stick and put several Linux Iso on it as well as some Windows installs.
Great to boot from external for Backup, GPartED or virus search or just to try out something new.
DL a new version with current speeds is not the problem we had with ISDN and early DSL.

>I guess I'll find some old Windoze, perhaps there's a W2k lying around. I still have a few of those on the shelf...

I keep a naked XP vm install to clone from, IIRC 10GB size.
Works great with 1 or 2 cores and even small amounts of RAM
Benefit are the USB ports you can open - W2K you had to twist some Dlls.