What does core mean?

[Jason]

Gene Holmerud wrote:
> I still have some cores, actual magnetic donughts that are now
> history or nastalgia.  But they're the source of the word.

... if developments in semiconducting polymers continue, its not
unreasonable to expect a return of core memory, with the exception
that it will be a thin sheet of plastic with a metal oxide layer
deposited over it, basically a random access floppy disk that has no
need to even rotate...

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