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I just had to say that because my son just dragged out an old 486 laptop (I had to explain what 486 meant) with Windows 3.11 and has been learning to program Basic on it. This machine has a 3.5" floppy drive on it. Even the 5.25" drives started to go away a few years before this machine was made.

AFAIK, any Windows OS can read FAT-formatted drives, which is what Windows 3.11 used and even most flash drives today are formatted as. Can't help you with a 10" or even 8" drive though. You can buy an external 3.5" USB floppy drive (e.g., http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16821103402&cm_re=floppy_drive_usb-_-21-103-402-_-Product) which should read any files you have on that size disk.

If it's Office files you have, and OpenOffice doesn't read them, Microsoft actually has the Office file specifications online (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx). Not exactly a project for the faint at heart, but, well, it's there.