TM, AE and 2 imacs and a macbook

Hi,
I have WIFI network driven by a AE, connected to it, one intel imac, one g5 imac both hard wired, and a macbook wifi connected.
I have one TB HD. I want to use this drive to back-up all three macs using time machine.
I had the intention to connect the HD to the AE with usb connection and designate this drive as time machine drive.
The question: should I partition the drive in three partitions so every mac has its own HD, or should I keep the TB as one HD?
Any suggestions?
Iemke

Partitioning requires that you plan ahead on how to distribute the free spaces, but there is flexibility should you want erase a Time Machine sparsebundle to start over without affecting the other backups. If you are worried that TM will overwrite the other backups by accident, it should not. A dedicated sparsebundle will be created for each Mac. It's really your call.

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