date: | 2007-01-04 19:03:01 |
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category: | Macintosh |
First, I’m a pack-rat; I worry about deleting something valuable. Specifically, I worry about orphaned files because the application software is no longer supported or the media is obsolete.
For example, my resume is a Hypercard stack. Really. Hypercard is an OS 9 application, and future OS X’s won’t support it anymore. However, I have an old disk drive with an OS9 and Hypercard. Consequently, I can’t consider erasing that disk drive.
For years, I’ve had a TODO list item for designing a resume DTD, unwinding the Hypercard stack into that DTD, and ditching Hypercard entirely. I’d have to maintain my resume as a massive XML database, but that’s not all bad.
This also means that I have old computers laying around. The current home network update shows an embarrassing surplus of home computers. Here’s one plan.
However, I give up the big keyboard and big display. Tough choice.