Data recovery from dead Mac?

Hey people,
Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to post but thought it would get best results.
My Mac (PowerMac G5) died the other day - some sort of spillage on the logic board etc, means that the repair will be lots of money, I'm therefore, buying a new one - Mac Pro, in fact.
The trouble is, I REALLY need the data on one of the drives and can't wait for my new Mac to come through to stick the drive in.
Any ideas on how to rectify this?
I know nobody (within close distance) with a G5 to stick the drive in. But being an SATA drive, which other computers could I put it in to extract the data?
Thanks!
James

Hi James, any G3, G4, or G5 running the same OS version will be safe and work if it has built-in SATA, or a SATA card in it. An IntelMac may work if it's running Tiger, Leopard may cause problems if it requires any disk maintence/repair.
Another option is a Firewire case that takes a SATA drive...
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/firewire+sata

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