Donuts

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  donuts n [obs.] A collective noun for any set of memory bits. This
     usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates
     from the days of ferrite-{core} memories in which each bit was
     implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop.
  
  



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  donuts
       
          (Obsolete) A collective noun for any set of memory bits.  This
          usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon;
          it dates from the days of {ferrite core memories} in which
          each bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic
          {flip-flop}.
       
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