> 
> On December 3, you wrote:
> > It is with great sorrow that I announce the death of my MicroVAX II.
> > 
> > I turned it on today for the first time in awhile, and it literally 
> > smoked!  Further investigation found that what appears to be a bypass 
> > capacitor on the CPU board melted.  It's the little brown rectangular 
> > thing nearest to the 32.768 kHz oscillator on the (left?) rear corner of the 
> > board.  It even melted itself into the one immediately next to it.
> 
>   Next time you're out this way, stop by my place and bring some beer
> with you.  Remember that stack of ka630 boards in my linen closet? :)
> 
> 

And as some extra comfort: Anything that did not involve any japanese
engineering, is usually fixable when broken (since the reverse is also 
true...)

Michel.