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Akron User's Group Hard Disk Drive

ORPHANWARE · Mass Storage
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Catalogue IDHW-0398
ManufacturerORPHANWARE
Person or teamJohn Lingrel/Ron Collins
TypeMass Storage (Storage)
PlatformADAM
StatusReleased
SourceCollectors DB v1.00 Master

Notes

A hard disk for the ADAM associated with the Akron user's group - hardware from a users' club rather than from a company.

Why that matters

  • User groups were how orphaned machines survived: they wrote the software, published the newsletters and, in cases like this, designed and built the hardware.
  • Orphanware's involvement suggests the arrangement these things usually took - a group's design produced and distributed by a company with the means to make it.

LITTLE IS RECORDED about this drive. What the group's design contributed against Orphanware's own Mini Winnie, catalogued here, is exactly the sort of thing that survives only in a newsletter - and the ADAM News Network archive on this site is where it would be.

The matching interface card is catalogued alongside it.