After years of having PC's to play with I finally came upon a Mac G3, put out on the street for adoption. It came with 3 CDs (Power Mac G4 Software Install & Restore versions 9.0.4 and Apple Care CD). It boots up fine but the previous owner left the Mac locked into the need for his account sign in and password. I am assuming that I can use one of the CDs to reformat the HDD or something of that nature but I don't really know what to do and how to do it. Any help would be deeply appreciated and you would be christening a Mac newbie. Thank you and Thanks for this forum!

I'm a long time PC user who had the same problem when I switched to MAC. There's a lot of info out there. Dave Pogue books are great reference- and each one covers a different version of the OS X. Easily available at the library. Also if you google it you'll find sites like the following: http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.ph... Best of luck Another Mac User

Thank you, OurGrandAdventure, your link looks great and I love the instructional layout with the crystal clear directives. This is a will do!