On 4/19/10 8:38 AM, joshuallen wrote:
I just acquired an old iMac G3 (Tangerine!) from a guy. He gave me the
original install/restore disks + backups (OS 8.something), OS 9 full
version, and an OS 10.1 upgrade version + backups of all. It booted up
to a login screen when I first turned it on and so I tried an full
install of 10.1, including reformatting the hard drive. It seemed to
work. Later I read that it's preferable to partition the hard drive,
for OSX, but I can't seem to get that to work. Also, I'd like to use
the machine for writing. If possible, I'd like something with a few
more features than TextEdit, such as page/word count, that would
easily transfer over to a PC, but that might be wishful thinking. I'm
new to Mac.
If anyone can give me some advice on software and let me know if
partitioning is a requirement (and how I'd do it), I would appreciate
any help.
Do "they" say why you should partition. Because for me the only reason
I've found to partition is for multiple OSes (OS X, Linux,...). I put X
and 9 and the same partition.
Make sure you upgrade the OS to at LEAST 10.3 (Panther) if not 10.4
(Tiger). They are faster and more stable than previous versions and
support more modern software.
For a supercharged text editor look at TextWrangler. (see
http://www.versiontracker.com).
For word processing look at Open Office. It's a free software suite
roughly comparable (and roughly compatible) with M$ Office or AppleWorks.
I don't have a link for Open Office, it hasn't been officially released
(last I heard) in English for Tiger (but Bulgarian is). I think it was
Bruce Johnson who had a link for it but I couldn't find it just now.
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