from
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.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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.
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