🚀 go-pugleaf

I saw a Symbolics machine running a while ago, and I've always
kinda wanted one.  I have an unused MacII, and was thinking about
trying to aquire a MacIvory system.  Having never dealt with a Lisp
machine before, other than hearing great things about them on
comp.lang.lisp and reading some of the papers from the MIT AI lab,
I have a few questions.

First, are they really hard to come by, or are people unloading
them on a semi-regular basis.  And how much do they go for roughly.
Do I need to get two or three as spares?  And what about software
and documentation?

Would it be cheaper/easier/better to get a TI Explorer? (They made
Mac boards too didn't they?)  This is on my hobby/education budget,
not the home equity loan plan, and I don't really have the space
for a refrigerator sized system, let alone it's power requirements,
even if it were free.

Any suggestions?  Should I just give it up and run CMUCL on an old
SPARCStation, or MCL on the mac?

Jon Buller