New PC, ME with old BIOS

Mike M wrote:
You can only obtain updates from the Windows Update site using the PC to
be updated. For the last year or so you can only obtain updates for Win
9x systems from the Windows Update Catalogue site using a Win 9x system.
XP and later systems go to a more recent version of the Windows Update
Catalogue site that has no Win 9x content.
Okay, then I'll use the basic system until some time
when I might go online with it. The intended use which
triggered this exercise is in a self-contained application
package.