Released circa September 1991, Sharp's "second generation" 3000 Series of PA (Personal Automation) portable electronic typewriters are smaller and lighter than their predecessors ... Above, a single platen knob Sharp PA-3000II (in my collection) "First generation" PA-3000/3100 Series portable electronic typewriters (3000, 3020, 3120, 3130, 3140, 30211) were introduced in October 1986 ... Above, a … Continue reading Sharp Thinking
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Sharp PA-3100S Instruction Guide
Electronic Typewriter Instruction GuidesThe following guide is freely shared. A small donation, however, will make it easier for me to continue to add to this archive. Thank you!$4.00Click here to purchase. Sharp PA-3100S Instruction GuideDownload
Sharp PA-3100 II
Portable electronic typewriters like this Sharp PA-3100 II were churned out (in large numbers) from a foreign plant in South Korea and shipped globally to Japan, Australia, the USA, the UK, Europe. This is the first to come up for sale locally and cheaply on Gumtree after several years of waiting, and boy was I disappointed. Even … Continue reading Sharp PA-3100 II
The World According to Sharp
Although Sharp owed its initial success, and eventually its name¹, to the Ever-Sharp Mechanical Pencil, it was the calculator that really transformed its fortunes. In 1981 (according to Sharp's corporate history at www.sharp-world.com) the two companies that had been marketing Sharp electronic office equipment were merged to form Sharp Business, Co., Ltd. Thereafter, Sharp made its first … Continue reading The World According to Sharp
Lord of the Wedge
I didn't know it at the time of bidding on my Sharp ZX-500, but it turns out the same model of typewriter was used by William Golding to write the second draft and subsequent drafts of his novel Close Quarters. Close Quarters was a sequel to Rites of Passage and the second volume of Golding's To the Ends … Continue reading Lord of the Wedge
