The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CD-ROM
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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M
More clues leading to the result CD-ROM
- Democrat’s somehow lost seat astonishingly — one has lots of information
- Doctor put in key order for memory device
- Medic, Dr O’Malley, keeps a collection of computer files
- Commander with honour finds vehicle for storage
- Medium for accessing information, reportedly shabby gypsy
- Dot-commer loses book about storage device
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