You need to get those ants back in there and put them to work. Tell them you'll add their life partners to their insurance and give the 20 cents more per hour.
Try grounding the neg side of the coil for a sec, then pull off the wire. If it sparks holding the coil wire next to ground, it's good. The pickup could have blown too. Plug a spare one into the input of the MSD and swing a screwdriver next to it to see if the MSD tells the coil to fire. If you have a spare distributor, plug it in and spin the shaft.