Depending on what's wrong with your PowerBook, you could try extracting your data via Target Disk Mode. Details on how to accomplish this are found here.
If this does not work, pull the hard drive from the PowerBook, using this guide, and put it in an external enclosure.
[quote|Ben Eisenman]Depending on what's wrong with your PowerBook, you could try extracting your data via Target Disk Mode. Details on how to accomplish this are found [http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661|here].
If this does not work, pull the hard drive from the PowerBook, using [guide|245|this] guide, and put it in an external enclosure.[/quote]