Do you want cnc?
There are some good deals to be had buying used, complete with ballscrews, etc, even if you have to put a new control on it.
To buy a manual machine and convert it, is likely not the cheapest route.
There was a Wells-Index cnc mill on ebay with an old Bandit controller, maybe it will get re-listed. I have one of these machines, and it is a decent machine, with a good quality Z "quill box", and precision ballscrews all over (as far as I know). Some of the retros have quite a chicken sh!t connection from the quill to the Z ballscrew. You don't see this until you get it home, though.
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