2 macs share same hard drive?

I need help with a solution.
I need to use older Adobe Software (LiveMotion) Unfortunately, it does not work with OS X beyond 10.3.
I want to use the new OS X on my G5.
I want to use one of my older Macs, I have a G4 and a G3, (would prefer to use G3), and leave it set with older system software to design in, but, use my G5 for everything else.
This will only work if the 2 computers can share a hard drive (firewire), or have access to the same hard drive.
How simple is it to share a monitor with the two?
Or I can set up two separate stations as long as I have access to the hard drives.
thanks for any help.

Hi George
You can share your hard drive files through Personal File Sharing. By default, this will share out your user folder (or the whole hard drive, if you log in as admin), but you can customize this more using SharePoints (which I recommend).
You can share a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, if you like) between two Macs using a KVM switch such as this one.
Matt

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