[HM] Re: New IMac Questions

[Ken Poppers]

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
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>>> http://www.prontomail.com/Prontomail/users/stuart1
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