(1) Does Boot Camp require a partition? (I know that the emulators don't.) I still have the 3.5-inch installation disks for WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 I saw several 3.5-inch drives at Micro Center starting at about $14. I'd use MS Word for attachments to send to people and WordPerfect for letters that had to be printed out and stuck in an envelope. WordPerfect was what we used at the newsletter company and I was very familiar with it I'd love to have it again even though nobody seems to use it any more. When I got my current Compaq Presario in 2002 I even bought a partitioning program but never got around to trying it. the Blue Screen of Death) which allegedly could run WordPerfect, and it did. When we moved to Somerville I got an H-P Pavillion with Windows 95 (Oh, God. When I lived in Washington and had an NEC computer (very primitive 'turbo' speed was 16 mHz RAM was 20Mb, I believe) I had Word Perfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3 (3.1) which ran under DOS. Can I run DOS on a Mac? Do I have to partition the disk to do so? You can download DOS 6.22 for free.

Quote I didn't realize one could run Windows on a Mac.

Run an emulator on an old mac