As a minor update, I was thinking about something similar to the 2002 prototype mentioned in this article: http://newatlas.com/go/8267/ with a couple of things licensed out 10 years ago (to a company that currently appears to only have a font that they license).

Seems to me that you might even be able to build something that would identify as a VGA monitor, either monochrome or in one of the legacy 4-color modes at a low resolution.