I've seen worse, as recently as a few days ago. A beige/brown color-schemed ADM 3a came in for recycling and it looked like the CRT face was ready to just fall apart. It was literally almost ten times worse than that in the subject eBay auction. We came to the conclusion that it was a delamination issue. If you can find it in the list archives, one of our intrepid list members did some experiment that pretty much conclusively proved it was delamination. These are now starting to be worth real bucks. I say they are worth getting in any condition at this point, especially if they can be rehabilitated. I think if someone can find an equivalent CRT in a common piece of gear, like maybe an Apple monochrome monitor, then that would be useful. I guess I could do that, if I make the time. $250 is way too high for this one. Drop the zero. But add $25-$50 for the original manual. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]