So,
Armory finished reloading and reorganising everything.
Still no transactions for the wallets and thus no balances either.
after all I did not lost a fortune, hardly half a bitcoin or so. Building an up to date system only to recuperate my wallets will cost me considerably more.
I very much doubt the introduction of bitcoin into 3rd world countries: even though my system is like 2 years old and quit lightweight performancewise it will still outperform compared to 10+ years old hardware with dial-up alike speed restrictions as most really poor people have to rely on.
Best idea is to quit trying I guess ?
Thanks for all the efforts.
Well 3rd world peoples could and perhaps should just use a lightweight wallet on the desktop/laptop or most likely, phone. Very few will have the equipment grunt nor the technical patience trying to sort thru the issues.