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.
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