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Technology Refresh
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:date: 2007-01-04 19:03:01
:category: `Macintosh <index.html>`_

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application software is no longer supported or the media is
obsolete.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 <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24522>`__  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 <http://www.itmaybeahack.com/homepage/steve/homenetwork.html>`__  update
shows an embarrassing surplus of home computers.  Here's one plan.

1.  Ditch the old `slot-loading iMac <http://lowendmac.com/imacs/blue.shtml>`__.
    It has a 10Gb drive, is G3 PPC, and S L O W.  It's land-fill
    material unless someone offers me $50 for it.

2.  Move the current `desk-lamp iMac <http://lowendmac.com/imacs/fpimac.html>`__
    out to pasture as the fall-back machine.  It's G4, so it isn't as
    slow.  And it's PPC, so it runs Hypercard until I get my act together to extract
    my resume from Hypercard.

3.  Start making more use of the MacBook that I
    had to buy as part of the $1,503.65
    `Coffee and MacBook <../C1363567500/E20061120165803.html>`__
    experience.



However, I give up the big
keyboard and big display.   Tough choice.