I can attest to 40 year old floppies stored in a barn as a viable storage mechanism. I was able to retrieve almost all of the code that I wrote in my childhood

I can attest to 40 year old floppies stored in a barn as a viable storage mechanism. I was able to retrieve almost all of the code that I wrote in my childhood this way. I had no idea that those old Apple 2 and Commodore 64 disks would actually still work!