Adra Systems, Inc. — 00:00:71 (MA-L)

Adra Systems, Inc. holds a single low-numbered IEEE MA-L block, 00-00-71, registered to "ADRA SYSTEMS INC." at 59 Technology Drive, Lowell, Massachusetts. The low prefix value places the assignment in the mid-1980s Ethernet era, and the company behind it matches that dating: Adra Systems was a Lowell CAD/CAM workstation maker founded in July 1983 by three industry veterans — William Mason (ex-Applicon), James Stenzel (ex-Hastech), and Peter Stoupas (ex-Adage/Applicon) — and backed by about $11.6M of venture capital (including American Research & Development). Its hardware line ran from the Motorola 68010-based Adra 1000 (November 1985, UNIX, custom graphics processor, 19-inch 1024x1024 display, roughly $15,750 base) to the 68020-based Adra 3000 (1986) and the PC-hosted Acclaim co-processor (1988), alongside the CADRA design software. Through the 1990s the company pivoted to product data management, sold its CAD/CAM software business to SofTech in 1998, and rebranded the remainder as MatrixOne — later acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2006. This is a defunct legacy hardware vendor: an 00:00:71 address identifies decades-old CAD equipment, not any current product, and it is unrelated to the modern "Adra by Trintech" finance software that search results tend to conflate.

IEEE assignment

00-00-71 (000071) → ADRA SYSTEMS INC. [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry (line 22292)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single block, no MA-M/MA-S sub-assignments found [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry; the IEEE MA-S registry (no matching 36-bit rows)

Registered address

59 Technology Drive, Lowell, MA 01851, US (recorded verbatim from the IEEE MA-L record) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry

Country

US [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry

Registration date

none. IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any third-party "date registered" would be a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and none is recorded here.

[Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry schema

Company status

defunct as an independent entity. Founded July 1983; CAD/CAM software business sold to SofTech in 1998; remainder rebranded MatrixOne, acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2006. [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies (single secondary source)

Founders

William Mason (ex-Applicon), James Stenzel (ex-Hastech), Peter Stoupas (ex-Adage/Applicon) [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies

Funding

~$11.6M venture capital 1983–1986, incl. American Research & Development [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies

Device types

standalone CAD/CAM workstations and PC co-processor hardware [Confirmed as a class] — see notable products

Notable products

Adra 1000 (Nov 1985, Motorola 68010, UNIX, custom graphics processor, 19-inch 1024x1024 monitor, ~$15,750 base); Adra 3000 (1986, Motorola 68020); Acclaim PC co-processor (Aug 1988); CADRA / CADRA-III CAD software (USPTO serial 74211497) [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies ; https://www.trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/74211497/CADRA-III

Industry

CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/manufacturing) hardware and software [Confirmed] — product history above

Corporate lineage

Adra Systems → (software business) SofTech 1998 → remainder rebranded MatrixOne → Dassault Systèmes 2006 [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies

Security / abuse context

Unknown — targeted search for Adra Systems + CVE/malware/vulnerability returned no vendor-specific findings, consistent with a defunct 1980s hardware vendor's legacy OUI. [Unknown] — no source (abstention on absence of findings)

Data trap

not the same entity as "Adra by Trintech" (modern financial-close software); search results conflate the names. [Likely] — https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/miscellaneous-companies

Analyst note

an 00:00:71 address maps to legacy 1980s Adra CAD equipment; the vendor is defunct, so a present-day sighting is rare and points to very old hardware or a reused/spoofed prefix, not a current shipping device.