donuts

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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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