[HM] Re: New IMac Questions

[Barry Lyden]

Ah, yes, I forgot about this one.  If a popup calendar is useful to you,
wClock is definitely worth looking at. Nice utility. I use iClock because of
it's multiple international clocks since I need to keep track of several
European timezones. Either way, both utilities accomplish what you asked for
Stu.

Good luck,
B


 On 10/10/03 11:19 PM, "Ken Poppers" <kpoppers at comcast.net> wrote:

> I use wClock from www.wolfware.com.  Works well.
> On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 08:34 PM, Barry Lyden wrote:
> 
>> Regarding your question about having the date and time show together
>> on the
>> menu bar, this is not possible with Apple's clock as Adam correctly
>> pointed
>> out. However, it is possible with a small utility called "iClock." You
>> should be able to find it on www.versiontracker.com.
>> 
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> B
>> 
>> On 10/10/03 9:57 PM, "Adam Bass" <abasscube at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> To answer your first question, you cannot have the date appear right
>>> alongside with the time, but if you click on the time, a menu pops up
>>> with the date. As to your second question, you cannot boot from OS 9
>>> or
>>> earlier on any newer Mac, including the 17" 1 GHz iMac. It comes with
>>> Classic emulation in OS X, which starts automatically when you launch
>>> any OS 9 app. Virtually ever OS 9 app will work fine in Classic, with
>>> only a few exceptions. If for some reason when you start Classic (from
>>> the Classic System Preferences pane), you should be able to reinstall
>>> Classic with the Software Restore discs that came with your iMac.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps. :)
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 10:27 PM, stuart weisberg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I recently bought a 17" Imac 1 gig with super drive. A couple of
>>>> quick
>>>> questions if you would.
>>>> First how can you get the month day and year to appear in the upper
>>>> right along with the day of the week and the time. I
>>>> have fiddled with the clock and International windows to no avail.
>>>> Second, I found out that my machine doesn't come with a
>>>> 9.2.2 installation disc. So after partitioning my drive I tried to
>>>> install 8.1 on one of the partitions. No go I couldn't boot from the
>>>> 8.1 Cd using the restart with C key. Also couldn't install 8.1 from
>>>> the 10 partition. I got a message OS 9 was necessary to
>>>> start Classic. Any way to install 8.1?
>>>> TIA
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Stu
>>>> Visit my homepage at
>>>> http://www.prontomail.com/Prontomail/users/stuart1
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