Transfer address book from os10.4 to mountain lion

My .abbu address book back up from my powerpc is seen as empty by my new contacts app.  Is there a way of getting the info. on to my new mac mini?

I'm not familiar with 10.4.11, but if you still have that OS running, go into your AddressBook and export your contacts into vCards. Select all of your contacts then File / Export / Export vCard. This will create a vCard file that you can use to import back into ML.

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