Transferring data imacCRT to intel imac

Dear all, new to this and bit thick so please bear with me..
I have very tempramental old imac crt power pc G3 400 running os9.0 and new 20" intel imac os10.4.8. Old machine has 15gb of Quark 5 files and I have Quark 6 app on intel imac.
My external backup disk has dropped dead (clicky noises and nothing else).
How do I get files across to new imac and can I do with ethernet/firewire or something? (Migration Assistant tried but won't work with os9).
Here's hoping!
Thanks
Steve

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88010
Your machine should have version 2.4f1 or better from that article.
Now with all due respects,that machine is probably long over due for some critical firmware updates before it gets the chance to become a door stop if 10.2 or greater has its way.
I do not trust Apple / System profiler to properly confirm anything. Best is to follow instruction from the below link gathering up version and DATES.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30575
...Ron

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in the first point under *Starting your migration:*
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I'm not exactly sure what category to file my question under due to it's unique circumstances, so I tagged & selected areas & categories that I thought were appropriate to widen the range of people who will see it & hopefully, make it more likely that I'll find the answer I'm looking for.
I was given an older iMac computer by a family friend, it's old enough to not have an iSight camera built into it, but new enough to have well-working wifi & Bluetooth connectivity available on it & support it's updated software without posing any problems. I believe from what I can gather & the looks of it, it's currently running Snow Leopard, but I can't be completely sure because the newer software was installed previously, before I received the computer, although I'm pretty sure that it is Snow Leopard.
I also have a MacBook that stopped taking a charge long before I got the new (to me) iMac, the repair is not worth the cost, so I would like to transfer the data from my MacBook (irreplacable pictures, music, etc.) to the iMac, I'm planning on purchasing an external hard drive & an external battery charger, but I can't afford it at the moment & would like to transfer the data as soon as possible, so that I can access it all again, but there's only so much battery life left on my MacBook battery right now, about 10% at the very most, which is certainly not enough to keep the computer on long enough to transfer it all with file sharing via wifi/Bluetooth.
So, I was wondering if I could possibly connect the two through a USB cord & transfer it without the MacBook being turned on or if there was any other way to transfer information without having to turn on the MacBook to do so?
My MacBook has a unibody & was purchased brand new in about mid-2010, it was either the last or at least, one of the last models of MacBooks made before MacBooks were discontinued, & it also runs Snow Leopard. I could never figured out how to work Time Machine & from what I could figure out from the program it either cost money to use/I didn't have any external place to store a large amount of data, so no, I don't have a working Time Machine because I never could set it up. I don't what might have relevance to my situation or not so, I tried to give as much information as possible in case it could be helpful.
Thank you all so much for your time, input, & help, I really appreciate it! (:

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I'm trying to transfer 15GB of data from my win98 pc to my new imac. As a first attempt, I bought an external enclosure, removed my pc's hard drive, put the hd in the external enclosure, and hooked the external enclosure up to my imac, but my imac can't read the drive.
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Hi,
I should also have added that Windows can't read the
HFS+ file system that Macs use and also, putting the
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