First of all, I want to thank all the folks who helped me get my 266Mhz G3 and iMac 333Mhz G3 working.

For right now, I have backed off somewhat. I am trying to compile a list of software that will run on these two machines, and trying to find the actual software itself. I've been looking for an office suite, something to help duplicate DVDs, and a program or two to help me with my school teaching. I've downloaded several packages that say they run on these machines, but when I load them and try to run them, I get errors that say they cannot run because such-and-such a program is not installed, or not enough memory, etc.

I know I flooded the forum with LOTS of stupid questions, and for that I apologize.

I HAVE NOT given up on my two little dinosaurs, but for a while I'm gonna read, read, read, and hunt, hunt, hunt.

Thanks for all the help

Microsoft Office X will run on those. There were also free versions of Open Office, which needs X11 installed, and NeoOffice which doesn't need X11, but I can't see where to download them from anymore looking quickly.

With Disk Utility you can make a copy of a DVD and reburn it to a DVD. The problem you'll have with trying to burn DVD's is a lack of hard drive space to house the dmg files you make to burn back.

Toast burns DVD's too but the same thing. You can tell it to copy a DVD but it would need enough disk space to store the temporary file before burning. You'd need Toast version 6.1.1 or earlier, down to 5.2.1, anything before needs to use OS 9.

You'll also need a DVD burner, which neither machine has, and finding an internal DVD burner for the iMac is not possible, they were never made, and finding a burner for the G3 will be a tough one if at all possible that will work with that system and hardware. Your best bet would be an old IDE Pioneer DVR-104, if you can find one. I don't know if the optical bus is SCSI or IDE. If it's SCSI, good luck, I doubt you'll find anything.

You are a king amongst kings. Where exactly do you store all this info/data?

Previous versions of Open Office...
Here

Toast 5...
Here on Ebay for $10.00

On the internet, I'm an idiot without it.

Windows versions.

It has to be able to get to 5.2 for X. I don't know if Roxio still has that update available, probably not. I have a 5.2 around archived on DVD.

I may have a Toast 6 install disk around here, somewhere. It could take days, weeks, even months to find it.

That's right, 6 runs on 10.2, I have that laying around too.