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   Hey Charles!   
      
    CB> what I meant was they are both pretty much the same thing in that   
    CB> they're solid state "flash drives".   
      
   Yes although some are definetly flashier than others, as well as much more   
   expensive, such as the 3.5" SCSI flash drives which were literally thousands   
   of dollars.   
      
    CB> the other is a "Cartridge" with a regular IDE connector.   
      
   Ah!  Yes I have two of those; a 40 pin ide as well as a 44 pin model that was   
   better I thought since no power cable was needed.  The ones I was talking   
   about looked like those except they plugged into a special usb port on the   
   motherboard instead of plugging into an ide interface.  The only ones I ever   
   saw advertized for them was made by Intel and never really took off for   
   whatever reason.   
      
   Of all the flash disks I have seen thus far the sata ones are the best   
   overall, although I must say the nvme jobbers I am enjoying muchly.  The only   
   problem with them is they aren't hotswappable whereas sata ones are.  All   
   things considered sata is the way to go.   
      
    CB> i have legit keys and isos for OS5.0.7, Xenix   
      
   I found a iso for "Tru64 UNIX 5.1B" which is the last official version   
   (2012).  Also there is much documentation provided so hopefully this won't be   
   as painful as I am thinking it will be.  We'll see.   
      
    CB> as long as it reads right at block level who cares   
      
   It definetly does what dd is meant to do ... or at least everything I use dd   
   for.  However my main boxes still have the dd supplied by coreutils which   
   works just as well for those identical tasks.  The thing is that there are   
   choices and that is a good thing .   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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