In the mid 1990's a young computer nerd wrote an CNC program called One Step that you could run on Windows 3.2. All you had to do was draw the part and tell it what tool it was using, the computer figured the rest out and ran the machine.
I did the mechanical grunt-work of the retrofits.
His Demonstrator machine was a Kondia. We ran the hell out of it many times with the spindle going at top speed.
We also took it to King of Prussia, PA and Springfield, Mass. to the shows. As you might think, moving tends to perturb machinery.
The Kondia took a lickin' and kept right on tickin'.
During my Retrofit Days, I took a variety of imported mills of that type apart. I found nothing about any of them that I could complain about and some things I really liked.
We didn't do any Jet or Grizzley or Enco stuff, but these were Spanish and the better Taiwanese mills sold through industrial suppliers.
While many of the import mills have lost their similarity to the Bridgeport's appearance, they are still of the same mechanical design.
I still have some screws and graduated collar sets hanging around here and I have to measure them to tell which is a B'port and which is an import.
The name doesn't seem to mean much anymore, there are only three things to look for in a used one, Condition, Condition and Condition.