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A couple of ways, and it would depend on the ages of the computer, the amount of data and your own ability!
The easiest is probably a USB pen drive. Sometimes called a USB stick or thumb drive, they are small gadgets which can be purchased pretty much anywhere these days and only cost a few pounds/dollars.
If you've got Windows 98 or later you can probably just plug the USB stick into your old computer, Windows will display it as a new disk drive then you can drag-and-drop your files onto the disk drive. When you're done remove the USB device (remembering to "Safely remove hardware" from the icon in the system tray) and plug it into your new computer. Again, a disk drive will appear and you can drag-and-drop from the USB drive to to your Desktop or wherever.
On a mac, same physical process, but the device will appear as a mounted device on your desktop.
If USB ports are a problem, you could try burning your data onto a CD and transferring it that way.
Two other options: a small home network, (Get Googling!) or remove the hard disk drive from your old machine and physically attach it to your new one. You'll be able to drag-and-drop between the two drives.
A lot of options really... like I say: how much data and what hardware do you have available.
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