I would need to connect an external drive to my iMac computer?

I have an iMac hard drive that was purchased 1 year ago from the Apple Summit Sierra store in Reno, Nevada. I have had a lot of issues so this drive was replaced by a new one. The old hardrive contains OS 10.5.x and has appleworks which I created a lot of documents.
The Apple Summit's Genius bar installed OS 10.6.8 onto the new hard drive and now, I am NOT able to open those files that were created with the appleworks software that resided on the old hard drive. I notice that appleworks was replaced by Pages which will not open appleworks files.
So this is what I am asking the community...
1. I would like to connect the old hardrive as an external drive so I can open these documents. What is the best way to do this? Someone mentioned that I would need a "sled" which I suspect is an external casing that has it's own power and connects via USB. I don't recognize the type of plug that I would need.
2. The old apple computers could start up from the external hardrive connected to it. Is this still possible with the newer intel computers?
I would appreciate anyone's suggestions or input. Thank you...

To use the HDD as an external drive you need and external drive enclosure. It would connect with your computer via USB or FW; my preference is to have it set up for both for flexibility .Check your computer ports to see what you need.
When you buy the enclosure check to see whether it comes w/ the cables you need.
A good source to check for the HD enclosures is: http://www.macsales.com/ If you're not sure of what you need just call them; they're very helpful. There are other sources for these but OWC is my favorite.
Your old HDD is probably bootable. Once you have the drive in the enclosure connect it to the computer.
You can get some data, etc. from the old HDD to the new drive by clicking the ext. HD icon on the desktop to open & dragging whatever you want (or Copy/Paste) to your new HDD.
Alternatively you can set the external drive as Startup Disk:
Go to System Preferences>> Startup Disk. Your new external drive should show there. Click on new drive and Restart. When the computer has rebooted the external HDD (with old HDD) will now be the Startup Disk. Until you change it again in System Preferences.
Do you have the appleworks software disks? You could install that on the new HD, and just move the files from the external HD to the new drive---or is that part of the plan?
Good luck w/ this.
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