In 2006, a manager asked me if I could get some emails off an old computer. Then he pointed to an IBM PC with a 10 meg HD. I told him “no”. “But that’s why I kept it”. It wouldn’t even turn on.
It’s been in the basement for 30 years, since we took early retirement. Used it for a short while, but upgraded soon and never turned it on again. Only thing we’d have wanted it for was 10 and 20 years of email from IBM, but history passes and you let it go.