possible MSD disaster, could I have fried my ignition Options

[moneysmarts]

Thought I'd get geared up for the spring
New plugs, rotor, cap, wires, and Bosch Blue coil.
All installed, nice and neat, fired up the engine, ran fine for 60 seconds....then dead.
No spark at all. Put all the old stuff back, still no spark.
Is my new coil not compatible? It's the same part number as the one I've been running for 10 years. Did I smoke the MSD 6AL?
Please advise

[IronHillRestorations]

The green and purple wires are for a magnetic pickup distributor, and your 009 is not. Pertronix isn't a true magnetic pickup, so it uses the white wire just like a points distributor.

edit: I've never read anything about shorting the mag pickup wires, and I've done several engine harnesses that have used the white wire. My guess is that fried your MSD box

[stownsen914]

Maybe try tracing spark through the system. Sounds like you get one from the MSD. Can you try triggering it from the distributor and see if you get spark from the coil? Make sure the points are clean, that's easy to check. Coils fail, do you have a spare to try?

[moneysmarts]

Maybe try tracing spark through the system. Sounds like you get one from the MSD. Can you try triggering it from the distributor and see if you get spark from the coil? Make sure the points are clean, that's easy to check. Coils fail, do you have a spare to try?

Well, I used a jumper to ground the magnetic pick-up wire hanging unused from the MSD box, but evidently that's not the correct procedure to check the MSD for functionality.
I try to figure out another way to diagnose that.
I swapped my old coil back in, without success.
I have no idea how to get a spark from the coil, as you suggest. I did roll the car so the lobe on the distributor shaft was at the max point and I have good points gap there.