Hooking Two Macs Together to Transfer files

My first Mac is a dual 867 Mirrored Door G4 Power Mac, running Jaguar version 10.2.8; I want to cable it to my other Mac which is a 20" G5 IMac (prior to Intel), runnint Tiger.
I saw this exact same question in Mac Addict Mag and they said you can use either a USB cable or a Firewire cable...but it needs to be a transfer cable...The article stated that an "ordinary" cable would damage one or both computers.
So, should I look for a USB or a Firewire Cable and will a retailer know what I'm talking about when I ask for a Transfer Cable.

Hi,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Forum!
What you want to do is called Target Disk Mode:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
Use a standard Firewire cable, they are the same on both ends, USB cables are not.
Regards,
Dave

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The computers, if on a shared network, could share files more naturally;
in fact PCs and Macs work together in a network.
FireWire (Target Disk Mode) won't work to naturally share files since one
of the two computers would be only seen as an external FW hard drive.
Setting up a small computer network would be a better idea; since you
can also share internet and other things. This could be done over an
Ethernet network since all devices (or many) have hardware identifiers
that help route data to and from them accurately & securely in a LAN.
But, I know nothing about setting up such a thing; so hopefully others
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