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Mitsubishi Diamontron CRTs were a clone of the Sony Trinitron technology (either licensed, or brought out after the patent lapsed).  They're great.

I want to say thankyou too for your thorough photographic and textual documentation of the process here, max1zzz

Good?? That's an unbelievable deal - jump on it.

Edited my reply above: USB controllers are of course compatible, it's the older, proprietary ones you have to watch out for.  As far as I remember, every Mac game controller pre-USB used the ADB port.

1400, 2300, 5300?

Apart from the three options listed by beachycove above, there are also Localtalk to Ethernet converters, which were made for connecting printers to Ethernet networks.  They will work just as well to connect your Plus to your G4's ethernet port.

What joystick?  I hope it's not one from a PC or literally any other computer or gaming system.  The only joysticks which will work with a Mac /edit/ pre-USB / are ones made for a Mac.  If you've somehow plugged another type of joystick into the back of your Plus, there's every chance you've...

oh my looooord

ebay is probably your best bet, though you might be looking for a while. It might be worth looking over the key matrix - and the keyboard ribbon - for any breaks and patching them with a conductive ink pen.

I don't think they're compatible.   No, I think the system just ignores the off-chip FPU.  

Really?  I always thought the device would only draw as much current as it needed from the supply.

Note: DO NOT do this.

Moved to correct forum.

No, but the documentation they put together in reverse-engineering Apple's machines might be helpful.

If those ROMs are a standard, obtainable part, it should be possible to make up a single ROM with switchable ROMs in it.  It's a semi-common trick with older systems that use a ROM - find a larger, pin-compatible replacement, and switch the most significant address lines.

Could you post them to the macdrivermuseum as well, please, if they don't already have them?

Note that any USB2 card will only run at USB1.1 speeds under OS 9.  In OS X you will get the full speed. IIRC, that machine will take 1.5GB of RAM.  If you only intend to run OS 9, 1GB is plenty, but for OS X I would recommend maxing it out. Any G3 or G4 ZIF socket CPU * will work in that...

Just stumbled onto this little bit of information:     http://www.filfre.net/2014/02/macware/

That's true on the desktops, but not on the laptops.  When I find my Stealthport serial adapter, I'll have a close look at it with an eye to replication.   That's unfortunate.  Is there anywhere on the logic board upstream of the datapump where we could hijack a true TTL serial signal from?  

This would be yet another case where Lowendmac is, to put it simply, wrong. The far more reliable Everymac gives the following for the Lombard: