Living outside the US means I'll always be paying a great deal for shipping.

Either way, first order of business is testing it, the breadboard method. I can also clip a variable power supply set to 3.6V to the battery terminals. I'm also planning to recap a SCSI enclosure, then I can have a known good boot disk handy as well. Once I'll have a working system I'll think of what upgrades I'll treat it with. A G3 upgrade will give me a good video card slot, and if I max out the RAM it could be a capable Mac OS 8.5 machine instead of the less interesting 7600.