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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