Old Beige Mac, Can any older mac users help? Options

[subgenius88]

I picked up a 266 G3 beige all-in-one that was already upgraded w/ a 30 gb HD and 512MB RAM for $100. I've got 10.1 installed and all 3 PCI slots are available. I'm planning on installing a USB 2.0/firewire card so I can attach external CD/R and HD and MIDI interface, etc.> I have no experience using a computer for music. I'd like to use it as for sequencing and audio and will be primarily recording tracks one at a time. Can anyone suggest software I can use on that type of machine. New software typically requires a faster processer, but is there any way to pick up older software. For example, DP 4.0 I believe is the current version, and requires more than I've got, but people were using 2.0 or 2.5 back when the beige was a little more current. I've been thinking about adding a sonnet cpu upgrade, but I'm definitely on a budget. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[kolo]

I'd actually recomend trying OS 9. It's alot less taxing. I had a powerpc 7600(233mghz not g3!). I few years ago I got it for about 150$ and tryed running cubase 4.1. It acutally worked (slowly). I upgraded with a newertech 400Mhz G3 card and it worked great. Look for some dated software on ebay, can find this on ebay pretty cheap. I was able to run a reasonable amount of tracks with cubase 4.1, (like up to 20!) Virtual instruments were very taxing and one, two or three (depending which) was the max without ultimate problems as effects and tracks put their load on the processor. Your system is slower than this, and os x really needs more power as do the later issued applications which use OS X. Look into an upgrade card, it's well worth it. Do your research in chat spaces for particular apps as some don't fare well with some apps.. good luck