All told, the specs were: AMD K6-2 450, 84MB of RAM, 8.4GB HDD and a 10/100 NIC. Amazingly it ran WinXP, although it took about 10 minutes to boot and longer to get RDP to login and load Winamp. Often, we'd be done before it actually booted enough (poor planning clearly) but it was one of my better metalwork projects after the cardboard case started to come apart.
The idea was to replace it with a better mini-ITX board later, but the opportunity to reuse it never really arose. The whole thing is aluminium held together with M4 nuts and bolts.
All of the sides are aluminium plate and got as far as having the I/O panels and PSU fan cut out, the front was marked for the CD tray, but was never done.
After having a clear out, i found this in the back of a cupboard, its moved with me 5 times and never been in use so its time to put it to rest. Now an old laptop is the kitchen jukebox its going the way of Old Yeller. Although without the shotgun...
The PSU had a hard drive cage behind it for expansion (originally this was planned to be the entire music collection source for the house). The PSU was all of about 200W
The boot drive was hung from the middle shelf which had the motherboard above it.
If i'd done it today, with say an Atom or something, it'd be more useful, but things like the RPi and the benefit of having better spare hardware available for free meant it'll never be completed.
At least it worked for developing some good metalwork skills for another project (A server case) which also outlived its purpose. I think I over plan somethings a little much, or run out of time, either way, this one has been canned to make the list a bit shorter and get to the end of some more useful things.
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