Is it worth upgrading from Mathematica V10 to V12?

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I am about to try to bring a database of text and links from HyperCard on the Macintosh into Mathematica. One file has 16,000 text elements (called cards in HyperCard) taking up 75 megaBytes, another has 22,000.

I have Mathematica 10. Should I upgrade to Mathematica 12?

I’m interested in the Community’s opinion

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Importing the data into Mathematica 10 or 12 should be no problem if it has a consistent format. The question is what do you plan to do with it after you import it.

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The data has a very consistent format – this is the data (and metadata) of two of the 16,000 cards. It also has button links to other types of hypercard data (e.g. glossary, index). I plan to get all that into a series of mathematica notebooke and then continue reading the literature and taking notes on it, linking it to what is already present. That’s what I used hypercard for, but it is only supported on machines that Apple doesn’t make any more (something to do with memory management)

Thanks for responding

"Total Number of Cards = 2
Begin card "X1766697"
card id 1897041
Nature vol. 316 p 457 - 460 '85
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"Choroid plexus tumors"
1711804 Xref
"SV40"
1433061 glossary
"SV40 – moreInfo"
2104481 Xref
"Transgenic animals"
1512732 "glossary"
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Oncogenes
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Transgenic mice with SV40 early genes die of choroid plexus
papillomas at age 3 -5 months. Elevated SV40 T antigen and SV40 mRNA
are present in affected tissues. If the SV40 enhancer region is
deleted, there is peripheral neuropathy rather than choroid plexus
tumors, and there are liver and pancreatic tumors as well.
End card "X1766697"
Begin card "X1773629"
card id 1903962
Nature vol. 316 pp 596 - 605 '85
1
"Repressor"
1279797 glossary
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Gene expression
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Good evidence exists that by changing one face of one alpha
helix, you can alter the specificity of DNA binding proteins (lambda
repressor, cro repressor, P22 activator). Crystal structures of the
models show that this helix lies in the major dense groove of the DNA
binding site. The other 3.5 alpha helices of the repressors remain
unchanged. One face of the helix barrel is enough.
End card "X1773629" "