Hey guys can anyone help


i've been assigned to wipe two hard drives on MAC SE computers
i've never used or troubleshoot a mac pc before
so i don't know how would i go about when trying to erase these mac hard drives.
I would really apreciate any help that you may give.
Thanks!

those drives are SCSI based! You need a scsi enclosure with power supply,
an appropriate cable (there are 3), a system with a scsi card.

move the HD to the enclosure and then you could then cable up to another system(do not hot-plug scsi; power off the system!) and run FORMAT.

IF the Mac SE will boot, you can just delete all application files and save $$$ and time.

Are you required to put an operating system on there?

as shown above ...

Yes, but I take it the reason for the 'wiping' is so that they can be given to new owners. A machine without an O/S would be pretty useless. I am just trying to establish what the intentions are

I wipe all HDs when I donate or even trash a system -- S E C U R I T Y and privacy

the MAC Se is a 80086 Motorola chip running --- get this -- 10mhz!

no one would try to use one

lol You'd be surprised!! There are some Mac enthusiasts there that would give anything for one of them!!!

Well they're certainly nice conversation pieces
(btw: the os would be 7.1)

We started with Macs in '89 with a IIci at 25mhz, 512mb and a whole 120mb hd
and thru the years have move to a 9500 and now an eMac.

lol my first Mac was a IIcx 16MHz, 8MB RAM (after upgrade) and oooo...... 40MB HDD - shocking!