Help for a mac beginner?

A few years ago i was given a Blue & White PowerMac G3 as part of my "severance" when the web-dev company I worked for went out of business. It's been hanging around unused since then. I'm looking to use it strictly for writing projects and email -- nothing fancy. But I need to do some upgrades on it just to get the internet hookup. What route do I need to go to be able to get online and run MS Office 2001? Thanks for your help!
Here are the specs --
B/W PowerMac G3
384MB
PPC G3
350MHz
OS 8.6
Two (2) internal hard drives of 6GB each.
Apps: Illus 9, Photoshop 6, ATM Deluxe, BBEdit 5, Dreamweaver 3, Flash 4 & 5, Quark 4, InDesign 1.5, MS Office 2001
Help!
B/W G3   Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier  

Hi, Brooklynmambo -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
But I need to do some upgrades on it just to get the internet hookup.
What might those be?
There are many folk still running OS 8.6 who have no problem getting on line, even using DSL. If your ISP has some specific requirements, please advise what those might be.
The first thing to do, while it still has OS 8.6 on it, is to make sure the firmware on it has been updated. It is needful to do that before any late versions of OS 9 can be installed, and before installing OSX. You can download the applicable firmware updater from this Apple KBase page -
Article #86117 - Firmware Updates
Note - it's a good idea to print out the included instructions before updating the firmware.
Once that is done, your machine should be good to go for all versions of OS 9, as is.
However, it would not hurt to increase the RAM - adding one more 256MB module (which is the largest a B&W G3 can use) would be best; two of those would not hurt, especially if you plan to go on to OSX.
Re going on to OSX -
Your machine is rated for all versions of OSX released to date; it would be well to not consider any OSX version earlier than OSX 10.2. OSX 10.3 is probably one of the better choices for that model.
You might want to consider replacing one of the two hard drives with a larger one, for use with OSX - it needs about 3GB of drive space to install, and runs best when there is at least 5GB of free space left afterwards.

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