Transferring data from ancient SCSI external hard disk to an iMac

I have an old 60mb external SCSI hard drive - so old that when I got it 60mb was huge - that I used with an old Mac Classic. My wife then used it as a backup for a Quadra. Now we want to transfer all the stuff on it to an iMac (which runs 10.4). How do we do this?

hillmore,
More and more, the best suggestion is to find a user group in your area to make one time transfers. Where in the world is 'Carmen San Diego' or your iMac for that matter? Post back with a city and we might know of a resource near by.
In the NW, Seattle has the best options. Just mentioned them here
Jim

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