I have an old G3 Lombard Power Book, 10.3.9, (Specs) that is in excellent condition, though the display has a short-lived red tint during startup. Aside from that, it works as well as it ever did.

Rather than having it sit idle, I would like to donate it to a senior citizen home or such.

But before sending it along, I wish to erase the drive. But alas, the Install CDs are lost to the ages and I don’t want to purchase same.

Ergo, have you suggestions re the best way to erase and then reinstall the OS? (I wonder if I took it an Apple store they would be charitable enough to do that for me.)

Last edited by cyn; 01/03/14 12:33 PM. Reason: Topic moved from the Lounge to the "Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.5.x" forum.

Harv
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