USB connection of two Macs

Is it possible to hook up two Macs directly with an A Male to A Male USB cable?
i.e an iMac G3 to a G5 Desktop?
And if so would one or both show up on the other display as an external drive, thereby allowing dragging of files, apps etc?
G4/400AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4/400AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9)

hi JB,
I don't know about usb but if you have two mac put the oldest one in to target mode by holdg the T key down durring starting up, you see a fire wire symble on that computer it a external drive at this point. After both of the computers are up and running the plug in your FW cable the other computer should show up as FW with that computer name, then you can upgrade you OS or swap files you name it!
cheers and good luck,
drs

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