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.

[algofrag1]

My 2 cents. I have a G3 beige desktop model upgraded to G4 processor(Xlr8) with 768 ram a delta 66 sound card running cubase 5.0 .Was running 9.1 for the longest time and just upgraded my OS to 9.2.1 and have always had a pretty stable system. My first recommendation wuld be to max the ram as this is the best thing you can do to increase performance on your system, especially with audio apps. My computer is a rrefurbished unit from about 5 years ago and for the first year i used the internal sound card and the G3's audio out with great success, however i was not doing much realtime audio at that time. If your looking towards mixing signals into your software such as guitars or miditriggered external modules then you will definitely need a good sound card that will reduce the latency issue. Hope this is of some benefit...