@enigmatico
I'm not sure what Ubuntu release this is about, but you can always find old repos at old-releases.ubuntu.com , check it out, it's all there: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
Up to Warty Warthog back from 2004. You have to replace the default entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and there you go.
Keys with which the packages are signed, might have expired though and you have to add [Check-Valid-Until=false,trusted=yes] right after "deb" on each of the lines. Should work!