HP PDA h1940

Aloha from Hawaii,
First time on forum.
Not sure how it happened, but years worth of contacts, and word files, etc. completely gone from my HP iPAQ h1940.  It appears to have hard booted maybe from not charging soon enough; never happened before.  I have soft reset, but everything looks like when I bought it.  I have not backed-up in 2 years because my windows computer doesn't work properly so I bought a Mac instead of fixing PC.  I have nothing on Mac for the iPAQ h1940.
Is there any solution?  These are very important contacts and Word docs where I kept notes on books I was writing.  I have become very sick and therefore little money or even energy to get what I needed to back it up. Please help with info to either restore my data or can I take it somewhere where it can be done?
Eternally greatful for your time,
tbone23