Pizza box

In computing, "pizza box" is a reference to the large flat form factor of cases that house the electronics of desktop workstations, so named because of the resemblance to the size and shape of es for, a common staple of overworked software engineers in the United States.

History
Two megabyte single-platter removable s from the 1970s used to be called "pizzas", and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a "pizza oven". It became an index of progress that just the disk was pizza-sized in the old days, and then the entire computer could later fit into such a shape. Sun Microsystems was an early adopter of the pizza box form factor with the introduction of their line in 1989, where the dimpled pattern also looked like air holes.

Apple products in the pizza box form factor

 * Macintosh LC
 * Macintosh LC II (Performa 400 to 430)
 * Macintosh LC III / III+ (Performa 450 to 467)
 * Macintosh LC 475 (Performa 475 to 476)
 * Macintosh Quadra 605
 * Macintosh Quadra 610 / Centris 610
 * Macintosh Quadra 660AV / Centris 660AV