Adaptor is an infrequent variant spelling of adapter. Neither spelling is attached exclusively to persons or to things. The only real difference is just the agentive endings of "er" and "or", of which, "American English has many such words, for which the suffixes seem almost randomly chosen." More @Wikipedia
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