How do I transfer info. from my old Imac G3 hard drive to the macbook pro?

Hello,
My imac g3 died last year and I finally upgraded to the macbook pro. Well, the G3 fizzed out on me and no longer turns on so I finally pulled the hard drive out. Now the next problem: can i access the information on this hard drive on my current computer? I had some form of OS X on it but that's about all I remember. If anybody has any helpful ideas that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance,

Putting the drive into another machine and then booting it as a targetted disk is fine - it will just appear like an external drive on your machine. I think bustardvan's confusing this with a clone or migration.
Your best and simplest solution is to go for an external enclosure - you put the drive in it and then it appears as an external drive on your machine.
OR
You could consider this
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NVSPATARH/
which should connect to the drive and allow you to see it on your new desktop - but as I'm not super familiar with it give the chaps at OWC a call and make sure it will be fine. Looks like it will be and you could probably easily sell it later - I'm saying that on the assumption your old drive is pretty small and you won't want to carry on using it as an external drive long-term. If large get an enclosure and keep it as an external drive.
Best of luck.
PS - Sorry if that's a bit garbled. I'd suggest an enclosure if the drive is going to be kept long term, otherwise the adapter if all you want to do is get the data from it.

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