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Bra grävt! :)  I wonder if they continued to use "Hårddisk" in Swedish, even after the switch to "Macintosh HD" in English? At least in the manuals. Maybe old habits. Also, if you check the 1992 Performa manual, it looks like names have been cut and paste into place. The margins looks weird...

So then it's between 7.0-7.1 somewhere. But maybe it's more down to a specific time period, not a specific OS version. I got my Classic in April '91, and I'm relatively sure the disk was called "Hard Disk" ("Hårddisk"). It came with 6.0.7. The SE/30 in @Crutch's post is assembled in August '91...

Yes, that's definitely interesting! And even more confusing, if legit. Now I'm reading in the 1990 "Macintosh Reference" manual: So at least that clears the question if the system software could be pre-installed or not. Maybe there was no definitive transition. Or maybe it was always called...

Now that I'm thinking about it... did the computers back then come with the system software pre-installed? Maybe there really was no default name on the disk, you chose it yourself when you installed the system software. I got my first Classic in 1991, but I can't remember if it came...

Thanks for your replies! It's very confusing...  :)   On the cover of The "System Software 6.0 User's Guide" the name is "Macintosh". Inside it's called "HD20" on all screenshots. Maybe they started using the name "Hard Disk" when internal disks became more common? The "Apple Macintosh Hard...

Hi, anyone know when "Macintosh HD" started to be used as the default HD name on Macintoshes? Incorrectly, I remembered that it always was called so. But after browsing through my Macintosh Classic's manual, I was reminded that when it was new (System 6.0.7), the drive was actually called "Hard...