Apple Flash Drive

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: July 26, 2024

Apple Flash Drive

Some years back, with one Apple OS X upgrade, the emergency option was a flash drive. I never used it. Check the image, I kept it around for years, and I’m guessing close to a decade old, now.

Think that must’ve been one of the first system upgrades that was strictly online, download and go, rather than order a CD/DVD.

As more an academic venture, I spent a portion of an afternoon — last time Mercury was Retrograde — figuring out how to create an emergency USB drive. Download the installer, format a flash drive, reboot, install on the spare drive, and it wasn’t as easy as I recall.

Apple Flash Drive

An older laptop resurfaced, spent a year or more in someone’s storage unit, I think. In order to erase the PowerBook Pro? I needed a flash drive.

I dug around, and that old Apple Flash Drive worked.

Old, dead tech that isn’t quite so dead.

Apple Flash Drive

Apple flash drive

the Portable Mercury Retrograde

About the author: Born and raised in a small town in East Texas, Kramer Wetzel spent years honing his craft in a trailer park in South Austin. He hates writing about himself in third person. More at KramerWetzel.com.

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