How to open the disk tray?

Working with an old G4 tower, and OS9.
No eject key on the keyboard, and the eject option in the menu at the top is greyed out.
F12 doesn't work either.
I can get it open by going via iTunes, but surely there should be a less convoluted way of doing this?

Hi-
"Open tray" does exactly that, opens an empty tray.
"Eject" dismounts a loaded disk, and then opens the tray.
If you don't have an extended, or Pro keyboard (which has an eject button, which also opens and closes the tray) opening the tray is done manually- push the button on the tray cover. Thats how I did it for years in OS 7 thru 9...
Pushing f12 should eject a cd/dvd, if there is a disk to be dismounted. If not, nothing happens.
Holding down the f12 for for a period of time is for OS 10.1.2 and later.
See this for other magic keys:
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
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