This is wonderful account and a tour de force debugging. I have an SE/30 with 128 MiB for the same reason (sans Ethernet, sadly). The #1 thing I'd like to try one day is bringing up Mk68Linux (think that's the name).
Possibly due to being in Europe (think $$$), I completely missed the whole Macintosh experience until OS/X came out. Having devoured the development history of the Macintosh I can tell how much I missed out on. The compactness of the box and the human focus design (eg. handle is built-in) makes it a treasure even today.
The 2nd thing I would love to try is driving the monitor from something else, say an FPGA or a Raspberry Pi.
Possibly due to being in Europe (think $$$), I completely missed the whole Macintosh experience until OS/X came out. Having devoured the development history of the Macintosh I can tell how much I missed out on. The compactness of the box and the human focus design (eg. handle is built-in) makes it a treasure even today.
The 2nd thing I would love to try is driving the monitor from something else, say an FPGA or a Raspberry Pi.