Get files from PowerMac G3 to External Drive

My uncle has an old G3 with a lot of photos and most of a book he has written. We need to get that information off the old G3 and onto an external drive. The G3 is running 8.5 and has two firewire ports, but when I connect my external LaCie Rugged drive, it doesn't seem to recognize it. I can't remember much about getting around in 8.5, so I'm not sure where to start to move the files. It has a CD/ROM drive, but it's not a writable drive and the USB ports are only 1.1, so none of my external USB devices work either. I also tried connecting with ethernet, but no joy there because my MB Pro doesn't see it and it doesn't see my MB Pro. I turned on file sharing on both machines, but I'm sure I'm missing something with the old Mac. Target disk mode isn't an option since it's not supported pre OS 9. Any suggestions?
Oh, and while I'm at it, how high can I upgrade the OS? The machine runs perfectly, but it's way out of date. It's got 10 gb's of free space on the hard drive and is a PPC 2.33 ghz processor.

You could temporarily remove the G3's hard drive from the computer and use an adapter like this one, for connection to your MacBook via USB 2.0. Assuming that you have adequate hard drive capacity for transferring the files to the MacBook, you could then burn them to CDs/DVDs or to a USB flash drive. I upgraded my beige G3s with larger hard drives, more memory, CD burners, FireWire, and USB 1.1 ports, and a better graphics card, but I wouldn't recommend doing that today with a 11 year-old computer. If your uncle wants to keep using it, I'd suggest downloading/running the OS 8.6 Update (updates OS 8.5/8.5.1 to 8.6). If a beige G3 has adequate installed memory and hard drive space, it's officially supported up to Jaguar (OS 10.2.x), or to Panther (10.3.x) with the assistance of the downloadable "XPostFacto".

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