Now that we've needed to move to a different partner to help us reverse engineer the Rejuvenator, one of the first major milestones was to verify our board actually works. It would be insanely hard to reverse engineer a board that doesn't even function.
With the help of mattsoft, who designed custom guides for the long daughterboard golden pins for me, I was able to install the Rejuve onto the motherboard - FINALLY - in a matter of minutes! Once that was done, the only thing left to do was power it up. So I installed the motherboard back into its original case, hooked up power, checked a few jumpers and installed the front 256KB expansion RAM (which was needed for power-on).
IT. WORKS.
In just 2-3 seconds of screen flashes I was looking at the Workbench request screen. After popping in a stock Workbench disk, it booted up in a matter of minutes.
Guys - this is huge. We're still in business.