The next step will be to shoe-horn a PowerBook shelf into it so I can pop up the LCD and try:

OpenFirmware . . . using a serial connection to a terminal programme on another mac, as the default output was via the serial/printer port, rather than onscreen.

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I've never had the time or inclination to start playing around with that approach, but maybe it's time to start . . .

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You mean you've had that thing all this time and *never* tried looking at Open Firmware? Eeek.

It would be most ironic if all it ended up taking to get that thing to boot is the Open Firmware equivalent of "press any key to continue"...