Pizza Box Computers from the 1980s to the Early 1990s

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[Synopsis]

This video is about the pizza box case format computer cases in various formats in the 1980s, and early 1990s. This type of computer case came about after the keyboard, motherboard, floppy drive, combo computer. The keyboard computer was popular in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and this came in the form of the ZX Spectrum, Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, Commdore 64, Commodore 128, Amstrad CPC, MSX, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron,Amiga 500, and the Atari ST to name a few. This was possible in the early days of home micro computers, because computers were fairly simple back in the late 1970s, and the early 1980s. However, as computers got more and more complicated with more and more peripherals, they required more expansion slots, motherboard boards got larger, and cpus/processors got more complicated.

In the early days of computing, processors didn't have heat sinks, power supplies didn't have a lot of power and were small, motherboards were small, and computers didn't have a lot of functionality. As a result, you had the pizza box computer cases which could accommodate specialized graphics cards, sound cards, parallel ports for printers, ports for modems, network cards, midi keyboards, joysticks, mice, more floppy disk drives, hard disk controllers and hard disks, etc. The larger chassis could accommodate more peripherals, and the computer could become a multi-functional machine. In the present day, a computer is essentially a number of things, like a music player, video player, video game machine, word processor, a shopping platform, spreadsheet, scanner, 3d printer, video editing machine, etc. The larger case definitely allowed, you to expand the capability of your computer.

Computers with the pizza box format was used in every platform from Apple Mac II to IBM PCs. PC clones are associated with pizza box computer cases; however, it was adopted by Apple(Apple II GS, Mac II, etc), Amiga (1000 to 4000), Tandy 1000 series, Amstrad PLC, etc. All the other formats started to die out around the mid 1990s, Commodore Amiga was no more by 1994, Amstrad was fading by the mid 1990s, Apple was also in decline at the same time, and Tandy computers was also declining by the mid to late 1990s. The dominant platform was MS-DOS in the early 1990s, and Windows 95 by 1995. The case format changed from pizza box to a mid or mini tower computer case by the mid 1990s.

During the time of the pizza box computer cases, you had so many variations, and that was the interesting thing about the era of pizza box computer cases. You didn't see anything like it afterwards. The mid 1990s, you had borrowing mid and mini tower computer cases that pretty much look the same that used Windows 95. Most of these computers were clones, but oddly they all look similar.
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