iBook seems to have relapsed after a spirited recovery.
It was taking a long time to boot, Spotlight felt it was necessary to reindex the drive, then would crash and repeat. After a single-user disk repair session it wouldn’t boot at all, in fact it didn’t seem to be getting power.
Battery and mains adaptor are fine, so it looks like iBook’s last hope is an Apple service centre 
Update: When the battery is connected, the num-lock, caps-lock and power lights all flicker alarmingly.
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Eeek - time to replace with a Mac Air?
No, not an Air, it’s too pricey. Probably a MacBook if anything.
Stuff a new drive in :), or take the old one out put it in a pc and run spinrite on it (needs oldy schooly bios to boot) that’s worked for me a couple of times (and I was amazed each time…)
I think the lack of ability to power-up at all makes fixing the drive a bit redundant … although maybe could sell it on ebay or some other form of giving all my personal details away
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