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Jroberts500,
I paid $3500 for the new one... I think I ran across the receipt a month ago.
The prince was nothing more than a drunkard, really. He told me that he had been drinking, and used a samurai sword to hack up the front bottom edge of the TV, and that was it. Not much of an answer, but enough for me to decide he wasn't anyone I would want to associate with. He was related to the sheik who burned his copper-roofed mansion to the ground for no reason on the corner of Alpine and Sunset Bl in Beverly Hills in the early 80s. I don't remember the name, but it was the same. (and equally as nutty).
Duane,
The picture was quite nice! The chassis is based on a CVM-3000 monitor, and has a really rugged power supply and lots of advanced features that most 1981 sets didn't have. I too am watching it, but I eMailed the lady again today to say that I can't bid because I have no place to put it. She is interested in getting it fixed, so I might try to help her find a beat up CVM-3000 from a studio or someplace with a newer tube in it. That's only if no TV collector can buy and rescue it. The only annoyance was those electric doors. They each have independent motors and are gear-driven. There is a touch strip on the edge of each door to prefent finger smashing. That was always being falsely tripped in the fall when there was a lot of static electricity in the air...
Charles
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