My iPad is disabled and my iTunes is too old to restore it

Hi,
My kids disabled my iPad trying to crack the passcode.
I followed the instructions to try and restore it but I get a message from iTunes stating that I need to update iTunes in order to do so. Then I come to find out that I can't update iTunes because the OS on my MacBook is too old, and I can't update my OS because my MacBook is too old. So now I have an unusable iPad. Is there anything I can do? I can't use the remote wipe because the iPad won't connect to the internet unless I tell it to and right now I can't get into it to connect it to the WIFI so it's showing as offline when I run "Find my iPhone" to try and remote wipe it.
Any suggestions?? Thanks so much.

Well, it sounds like you've correctly identified the problems and causes.
There are some sales out there on new computers. It's probably time to consider a new purchase.

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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
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