Thanks to everyone for all of their help.
Dennis, you wrote, "Can you tell me what version of Mac OS is on it?"
I have no idea. I don't remember.
Nick, thanks for your ideas, but unfortunately I cannot use them. As I wrote above, the battery is dead, so I cannot turn it on. What's more, I cannot find a replacement battery for it in my country. So what I'm really looking for is someone I can send my hard drive to, by international air mail, who can take the data it has and put it on CD's or DVD's.
Dennis, you later wrote, "What I do is take out the hard drive and put it in a external SCSI case and onto a newer G3/G4 Powermac with an Adaptec PCI SCSI card and get the files off that way then with the newer powermac you can do whatever with them."
- this idea sounds great. So I need to take out the hard drive and then:
* buy an external SCSI case (any one you reccomend? I've never seen one)
* buy an Adaptec PCI SCSI card
* find someone in my city with a G3/G4 Powermac, give him my case and card, and ask/pay him to do the file transfer to his computer, and from there to my USB drive or some CD's or DVD's.
Did I understand you correctly?
(By the way, these are old text files, so they should be readable)
Thanks again for your help
-Seth