How to unlock an old iphone that we can not remeber the password

I have an old iphone 3gs that had a password on it - I am needing to use the phone but can not remeber the password - how can I reset it?

You need to restore it in order to unlock it. Read this first.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/16/forgot-iphone-passcode-how-to-reset/
You really want to restore using the computer that you sync with so that you can recover all of your data from the backup of the phone.

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