How do I connect my laptops with firewire cable

My old mac laptop screen has died. How can I connect the old laptop to my new macbook in order to see the hard drive of the old machine so that I can retrieve/print files from it?
I have a firewire cable, but when I connected the two, the old machine did not show up on the screen of my new laptop. What else do I have to do? Thanks

See this Knowledge Base article on how to do this: it's called Target Disk Mode.
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