Archived versions with Captivate subscription?

Hi there. For those of you who have a Captivate subscription - Can you tell me if the subscription to Captivate allows access to older versions of Captivate? I saw in the description of the Creative Cloud that archived versions will be available of some programs. Is Captivate one of the programs for which archived versions are available?
My team's responsibilities include authoring tool support for Captivate. The people we support do not all use the same version of the authoring tool. That means that we sometimes need to have access to multiple versions so we can troubleshoot.
For example, right now we have colleagues using versions 5 and 6 of Captivate, and undoubtedly soon version 7 will also be used.
I’m not asking if the features of previous versions will be available in Captivate 7. I am asking if the older versions themselves will be accessible. I say this because I tried asking an Adobe Rep about this during a chat and she kept repeating that the features of previous versions would be available in version 7. That's great, but doesn't help me when I need to assist somebody who only have version 5.
Thanks!

Thanks Rod. Wow, that's a lot of versions of Captivate on one machine! I currently have Captivate 4 and 5 on my machine, so I understand that they can be run together.
But what I was wondering is if the subscription to Captivate allows access to older versions or just the latest version. For example, I don't have Captivate 6 yet and the subscription starts at Captivate 7. Would the subscription allow me access to an archived version of Captivate 6 as well, or would I have to buy that separately?

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