Straight 8 on ebay

It's sad to see the panel in such awful shape, but a machine like this would warrant fabricating a replacement. I've seen two Straight-8's sell on eBay in the past seven years. One was a rackmount system (mine) that went for 15k and the other was a tabletop like this one, but in much better cosmetic condition, that went for 35k in a "buy it now" only a few hours after it was listed. (With a market like that, it's hard to say how many might have been sold under the radar, unbeknownst to any of us here.) Another Straight-8 was offered to the the collector community (e.g., on this list) within the last year or so, and sold in a private transaction. There don't seem to be many coming onto the market. I doubt this machine will sell for a penny less than than 10k, and likely go higher. --Bill