I found a stack of Mint install CDs in the spring, going back to my first, #LinuxMint 5 in 2008! After copying them back.to ISO files, I have a Mint 5 VM running in #LinuxMintDebianEdition 6, and what's striking to me is how familiar the old system feels. Under the hood it's different, GNOME 2 is not Cinnamon, yet it's still recognizably Mint.