Great news, I'll look into that tomorrow. You kept a log of your purchases 28 years ago and knew where it was! Lord, I have trouble finding my AARP card. Your recollections did stir up a lot of old memories, bought my first mill in 1966,67,68? for $600. A used American Vertical that apparently was manufactured in Italy. It was a pure Bridgeport clone, even the parts were interchangeable with the exception of the cast iron casting. The damn thing weighed almost 4,000 pounds. I remember moving it with the Chevy dealership wrecker. Made quite a picture suspended from the boom slowly twirling in the wind at 30 mph. In those days you could get away with that kind of crazy stuff, OSHA was only a gleam in Jimmy Hoffa's eyes.
Vern