1986 Sharp PA-1050 #61044017
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Ted Munk (munk)
Created: 09-05-2015 at 05:23PM
Last Edit: 08-13-2022 at 07:45PM
Description:
A late-80's battery-operated thermal printing mini-wedge made by Sharp in Japan. This model prints in near-letter quality in 3 different typefaces and can do automatic centering and justification from documents stored in its 6000-character memory.
Note: these little battery-op baby wedges have a thermal print head, thus you can pull out the ribbon and feed it rolls of fax paper, and it'll print great on it without any ribbon at all! (:
Gifted to C. A. Bennett
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- Sharp PA-1050 User manual
- Sharp PA-1050 Typewriter â Baby Wedge Week Continues
- Surly Chicken Farms at longer than 720 nanometers: Sony DSC-F707
Photos:
Hunter: Ted Munk (munk)
Ted Munk's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Curator
Points: 2786
I am a scoundrel without a cause, and my swank outshines the sun.
I am a casual Typewriter Hunter residing in the sweltering deserts of Arizona with a wife, three cats and about 50 typewriters. My main hunting ground is thrift stores, and I rarely pay more than $10 for a machine. My collection consists mainly of portables with cases, and they stay in the cases unless I am actively using it (usually more than one at a time). I do, however keep a handful of interesting Selectrics, including a Composer and a couple of large Nakajima Electronics to use as daisywheel printers for my vintage laptop collection.
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