Allan,

To access the CDs, I use Oracle VM VirtualBox (free to download) inside
which I installed Windows XP, using the original CD that came with my
old XP machine. The only thing to remember is to have an 1881 CD loaded
before powering up VirtualBox because it won't recognise an empty CD/DVD
drive.

If I recall, I first did this on a W7 machine, and later on I was able
to export VirtualBox from the W7 environment to a the W10 environment
without the rigmarole of reinstallation. I have other specialised
software working within VirtualBox which have not worked in W7 since
before the beginning of time, let alone W10.

There are probably nowadays a myriad other ways, although initially I
did try Windows Virtual PC which turned out to be a useless heap of junk.

Howard