Citations:pizza box
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English citations of pizza box
Noun: "(computing) a wide, flat, square style of computer chassis, similar in shape to a pizza delivery box"[edit]
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- 1990 — Andre Kvitka & Tracey Capen, "Northgate Takes Thin-Profile To the Edge With Omnistation", InfoWorld, 8 October 1990:
- (Northgate refers to this system as the "pizza box" computer).
- 1990 — Maureen Molloy, "Newest Sun server outshines old units", Network World, 19 November 1990:
- And they still fit into the small "pizza box" CPU package introduced with the first SPARCstation in 1989.
- 1991 — William F. Zachmann, "A Case of Computer Design", PC Magazine, 12 March 1991:
- Compact "pizza box" personal computers with integrated components are more desirable since they occupy less precious and scarce desktop real estate.
- 1994 — Paul Merenbloom, "CD installation is neither rocket science nor child's play", InfoWorld, 20 June 1994:
- In tight spaces, such as "pizza box" chassis, the cable can easily be nicked or shorted on the punched metal frame.
- 1995 — Robert Gryphon, "Intel StorageExpress system boasts high capacity, few flaws", InfoWorld, 30 January 1995:
- The hardware configuration we reviewed consisted of a server and a tape drive, two stacked "pizza boxes" connected by a SCSI data transfer cable.
- 2002 — Tuan A. Nguyen, "MOBO Minutia", Maximum PC, November 2002:
- NLX boards are typically designed with custom features for the "pizza boxes" sold by large OEMs, so you'll rarely (if ever) see them marketed to hardcore system tweakers.