Drive broken; how to erase

My Macbook is about 10 years old. What do I do to prepare it for selling or garbage? The disk drive is broken, so I can't reinstall the OS (10.5.8). It's still useable -- I'm typing from it right now -- so someone may want it cheap. Of course I want to get rid of all traces of me.

To be brutally honest a 10-year-old Mac is of little use to anyone unless they want to try taking it to bits and messing about with it - quite apart from any wonkiness. You might be able to get a small amount of money for it but it's probably not worth the effort. If you want to trash the disk for security reasons, just take a hammer to it.
I don't know what the rules are wherever you are but many countries don't like this sort of thing being put in the ordinary trash - there are sometimes recycling facilities or places to get it thrown away properly.
If you are going to put it in the trash, please take the battery out first and find a way of disposing of it safely. Lithium is nasty stuff and you don't want it going into landfill and possibly getting into the water table. Again, some countries have places which will take old batteries and dispose of them properly.

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