starman wrote:

LW wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622

Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for
the SWL on your shopping list.

They made about '500' of them. There are about '76' known to exist. The
question is what happened to more than '400'? I can't believe all of
those are really gone. If had one, I probably wouldn't advertise it
either.

I once saw a website that said that about 2% of the total production of
tube gear made in the US or UK has survived. The site was devoted to
prewar TVs from both US and UK and it noted that only a couple hundred
prewar TVs from either country are known to exist today, and that given
total production (I don't remember exact numbers) that those numbers are
about 2% of total production, just like the formula says. It went on to
say that an undiscovered prewar TV would be of comparable rarity to an
undiscovered original Stradivarius (sp?) violin. I would suspect that
the same is true of the SX88.