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• pizza box n. [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• pizza, ANSI standard: /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
  Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....
• walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• PIZZA!!
• locked and loaded: [from military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] adj.
  Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use --- that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded....
• ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
  Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....