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1989?! Whoa man, you got problems.
1989 pre-dates ATA standards by 5 years. So while you have an IDE drive, it may not be compatible with just any old system, as some manufacturers liked to 'tweak' the IDE design (which conveniently made it compatible only with systems they specified). Further, at this point even ATA-1 is considered obsolete and no longer supported by modern motherboards. Anything predating that, not a chance.
Your best bet? If you can find the spare bits and pieces lying around, slap together a 486 or Pentium I system with a CD-RW and see if that will read the disk. That's a lot of work for a couple of old files on some museum piece. Unless you can't live without those files I don't think I'd bother.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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