How to back to maverick from Yosemite

I have iMac2008 & 2007. In 2007 I still have Maverick but I have changed the 2008 to Yosemite.
I would like to transfer Maverick from 2007 to 2008 iMac because ever since I changed to Yosemite my computer crashed.
Therefore; I would like to go back the 2008 Mac to Maverick.
Is anyone know that I can do that?

if the recovery disk is already at Yosemite it will restore it to Yosemite.
if the mac was originally purchased on mavericks if you do an internet recovery then it should revert back to the os that it was originally purchased with this can be done by holding command + option + r
it will boot into internet recovery and follow the process the same from there

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