I did a search at Apple support and it says that the target (the computer that acts as the external drive) can be any of the ones listed below: Target computers The following models can be used as target computers: ◦ iMac (Slot Loading) with Firmware version 2.4 or later ◦ iMac (Summer 2000 and all models introduced after 2000.07) ◦ eMac (All models) ◦ Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) with ATA drive ◦ Power Mac G4 Cube ◦ Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet and all models introduced after 2000.07) ◦ Power Mac G5 ◦ iBook (FireWire and all iBook models introduced after 2000.09) ◦ PowerBook G3 (FireWire) ◦ PowerBook G4 (All models) Gerhard Kuhn On Jan 18, 2004, at 8:29 PM, lloyds wrote: > > Is this true of older computers? > > BobLL >