Even though you can buy it new, you will still have to do maintenance. A clean capstan will become a dirty capstan. $600 is also quite expensive. For that much

Even though you can buy it new, you will still have to do maintenance. A clean capstan will become a dirty capstan. $600 is also quite expensive. For that much money, I can easily get a working reel-to-reel tape machine, plus a supply of media.