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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