pizza box

2 definitions found

pizza box - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pizza box
  
     [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in
     (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of
     its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air
     holes.
  
     Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be
     called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was
     referred to as a pizza oven.  It's an index of progress that
     in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the
     entire computer is.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

pizza box - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  pizza box
   n.
  
     [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially
  Sun)
     desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the
     dimpled pattern that looks like air holes.
  
     Two-meg single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas,
     and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza
     oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk
  was
     pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.