I am sorry, I do not know what ¨bollixed¨ means :S
The cases I have are old, but in good shape. I plan to make a retro machine with one (but it will actually be ATX, I will just repurpose and swap the switches and case displays) and a sleeper PC for myself with the other one. (ryzen 7 5700x, 32 or even 64gb ram, 2tb nvme and an intel a770, on an XT case 
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JAJAJAJA, yeah! XD
I had SO MANY discussions, back in the day, with people who did not understand how it worked.
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Hey @mandog 
UK, Peru, wow!
Have you watched Paddington?
I just watched it last month 
So your ancestors are from Peru?
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@mandog is Paddington. Without the marmalade (he’s not very sweet).
EDIT: But thanks for tonight’s viewing suggestion, @Austin, Paddington & Paddington 2. I love those films.
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Sr. mandog, sos Peruano?
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Su esposa Peruana. Ella es joven y muy hermosa. 
@mandog is a very lucky chap. His wife is young and very beautiful.
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Oh, i had no idea. Tampoco pensé que usted hablara Español, Sr. Bro
No yo soy ingles
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I see 
Español de secundaria solamente. Necesito la ayuda de un traductor hoy en día. 
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Well, it still works
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Physical age: 58
Mental age: 11 to 89 depending on how bad the adhd is on a given day
Computer use:
Apple IIe: ~1980-81.
Console for college’s mainframe: 1983-84.
Macintosh in college: 1984-87
Personal Macs: 1993-2021
Linux (ubuntu/debian) on servers: ~2013 to present
Linux desktop - Endeavour, Fedora, Garuda: 2021-present
While I can remember living without a computer for a big chunk of my life, I have to say that the past 30 years with computer/Internet have been far better. My knowledge and understanding of the world have improved dramatically.
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Maccer… (joke)
Fortunately I have been cured of that particular form of mental illness. 
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The Apple II is OK, though. XD
You interacted with the computer by feeding it punch cards when I first started learning computing. 
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That is amazing!, do you have pictures? I saw a punch card once, a long, long time ago. One of my teachers showed it to me.
Nope, everyone didn’t tote around a cell phone with a built in camera back in the olden days.
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LOL, that reminds me that my wife’s first job out of college was a punch card debugger assisting mainframe programmers @ Trailmobile in central Illinois. A problem arose because she was a better coder than the ones actually doing it, and kept correcting their code. That was the problem; her supervisor told her the programmers weren’t going to learn from their errors if she kept fixing their code instead of giving it back to them to fix.
That was late '70s. Her next job was with the State as an A/P and she stayed on mainframes until switching to PCs shortly before I het her in the '90s. Her ‘first language’ is machine code. Puh! 
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Ehmm, I am 38 years old, we did not have those back in the day either…
You did have cameras back in the day.
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