Comment by RetroTechie

> The chance that one would have anything important on a floppy that is not already backed up in the year of 2026 must be close to zero.

In the case of personal files: probably true. Who needs 20y old tax filings.

But there are exceptions. For example: sometimes games were released (binary only), decades later an author dies, relatives clean out the attic & flog some old computer junk on eBay, buyer goes through the stuff & discovers source code for a game that was believed to be lost long ago.

Or a never-released book manuscript is discovered in similar fashion.

It's not often, but it does happen.