[R-390] Fowler Industries R-390A on eBay Now

[Tim Shoppa]

Cecil wrote:
> Might be watching the first $5000.00 R-390A......unless I missed another one 
> that has already won that honor.

I think the government price for the Fowlers new must have been in the $10K+
range. I have no proof of my conclusion, just my eyeballing the complexity
of the instrument (having rebuilt a couple and seen a couple NIB subassemblies
over the past couple decades) + cost of what tooling couldn't be recovered from past
runs + some very very minimal overhead. Lose some tooling and the gov't
price could have easily shot up to $20K, $30K, even more.

Tim.