Gnomesane?

Here in DogTown, we tend to hang on to older technology for quite awhile, and occasionally things which once seemed useless become functional again.
With a little modification. Sometimes a lot of modification.
I give you, the Macnavox:

(Please excuse the inevitable dog fur )

The core of the Macnavox is a Graphite G4, (one of the notorious Gaston G4's) running iTunes under Panther on a 160gig Seagate, suspended by straps in the center of the right side. Since original Airport cards are scarce, it's sharing over DogTown's LAN via a Belkin USB wifi adapter.

This is the second G4 to power this box, the last one suddenly made a "poof" sound and a thin tendril of black smoke drifted ominously upwards..... so it's waiting for the recycler's now. All for the best, really, once the magic smoke gets out, there's not much point in clinging to the carcass.

The old Magnavox radio cabinet sits on casters, sports an open back for air flow and easy access to a power center with a 6ft flat headed cord, which makes it easy to rearrange the furniture when we need a dance floor. The two front panels had crumbling inserts that were probably toxic, so that was all scraped out and the grilles brushed to fight off the rust. Then pieces of a cream colored and heavily textured 70's curtain were stapled to thin wooden frames and fitted inside the panels. Lifting the lid on the top compartment reveals a small Sony monitor resting face up on the original turntable ledge.

I'd like to come up with a more graceful input solution than the unwieldy keyboard & mouse, but a touchscreen LCD panel is beyond the budget for this project. The CRT tends to get hot, so I often leave the monitor off, the Mac set to auto boot, and then launch iTunes on startup, so that it starts playing with one touch on the main power button.

A Klipsch subwoofer is bolted to the floor and the matching tweeters are mounted into springy pieces of pipe strap, screwed to the walls above and below the G4. The walnut cabinet really warms up the sound, and it doesn't skip when the party starts jumping. Yeah, the cabinet needs to be refinished, but it sounds so good I hate to unplug it!
Besides, I gave away my radio.