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could make a nice, nutritious breakfast
Shuffle them like playing cards
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Live action reboot of ReBoot
Store your important data on them.
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.
Eat it
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
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Throw them around your office like frisbees.
Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.
Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.
(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)
Copy them
Kind of hard to give right answers to something that time has rendered utterly useless. I guess you could sell it as an antique
Saw a post on mastodon in the last day or so that someone dug up a network card for the old 486 they had been working on getting back to life. Might be a use case there, as well as in aviation and medicine - fields that move exceptionally slowly and tend to have expensive equipment with long lifetimes.