pizza box

pizza box

[Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in(especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because ofits size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like airholes.

Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to becalled pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into wasreferred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress thatin the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now theentire computer is.