Just use /usr/sbin/lcdstring. Write some sort of Perl script to gather up strings and blit them to the LCD that way. My crontab essentially feeds uptime to lcdstring every minute so I have a continuous uptime panel.

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Weren't you looking for a more elegant solution to that, back in 2002?

I suppose one could make a custom lcdproc driver for the ANS, using lcdstring, if one can't get it to build with the hd44780 driver. One would be correct in presuming I have not had any luck thus far with that. Maybe I'll have to boot it up again to have another go at it...

Its stock, right down to the 32MB RAM installed and one hard drive.

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I had 96 in mine, but one of the extra modules was bad so I had to pull them both. Oh well, 32 is enough for a vintage OS like AIX 4.

All keys are with it, has the tape backup, and he gave me a box full of hard drives to populate the server, all 9GB drives

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A box full of 9GB SCSI drives is a good conquest in itself!