Oh no! I deleted everything on my hard drive! Help!!

So I have a new question.
(My previous post was about a pdf reader which I was successfully able to install on my laptop by splitting it among floppy disks.)
I somehow (?) accidentally deleted everything on my PowerBook's 2400c Hard Drive, except for the system folder in like 3 seconds.
Does anyone know how I could get it back?
My operating system is OS 8.1. Absolutely all of my applications/documents are wiped out, but the computer still works fine. It also only takes floppies, and I can't connect to the internet.
What happened was I was deleting a single file, but then when I emptied the trash, it started counting down and ultimately deleted -800 files. When it asked me if I was sure I wanted to delete the desktop folder etc., I finally realized something was wrong and tried to hit "stop" but by that time it was already too late.
I have made very sure not to write any files onto my hard drive.
Thanks!!
ps. if it is totally hopeless that's good to know too

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