I can try it under System 7.6.1 for you. I haven't done anything with AppleScript in years, but I used to make hugely complicated shell-inclusive AppleScripts for GeekTool on OS X. I'll report what I find out! If AppleScript is too limited to do it on System 7, we could incorporate a baby Perl parser to compensate.
Hell, at that point, you could even make another script that does the signal-sending for you.