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Jun 16, 2012 4:13 PM in response to fotozby Joe Pyrdek,Go to Apple Support Tech Specs and enter the serial number of your G4. The tech specs should give you the approximate date this system was being sold by Apple. It will also list a lot of other info.
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Jun 18, 2012 8:56 AM in response to fotozby a brody,Target Disk Mode just makes the machine that you press T on an external hard drive to other machines. If you are running Lion on the MacBook Pro, there are very few applications that run from 2000 that will work on Lion, due to the lack of Rosetta in Lion. However, many applications exist that can read older documents. If Target Disk Mode does not show the image on the old machine, you may need to replace the PRAM battery of the machine before it will work. Also read this tip:
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Jun 18, 2012 4:31 PM in response to fotozby japamac,All G4 towers except the Yikes support firewire target disk mode.
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Jun 21, 2012 11:25 AM in response to fotozby a brody,And if you do have a Yikes, you will want to make an ethernet network:
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Jun 21, 2012 12:33 PM in response to fotozby fotoz,Thanks folks, I've ordered a firewire cable to connect the two machines and will try the target disc option.
Appreciate the help!