Typewriters have survived the computer age and are thriving thrive among pockets of new customers. Gramercy Typewriter Company in New York City has seen a resurgence in sales of manual typewriters, ...

But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be improved. WriterDeck designer Un Kyu Lee has designed a “Desktop Typewriter Transform Kit” for the Neo2 that could make typing more comfortable. It also makes the ...

Ed Skibba tests a Remington typewriter after repairing it Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 at Ace Business Machines in West Allis, Wis. Ace is among a handful of Milwaukee shops that repair typewriters and have ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or ...

The heavily illustrated book comes in two volumes. “Shift Happens” offers exhaustively researched stories and discoveries about the people, politics, and technology behind typewriters and computer ...

It doesn’t require the talent of Steve Jobs to read the zeitgeist and realize that retro is “in” right now. That’s certainly the trend driving German designer Nanoxia’s new Ncore Retro Keyboard, which ...

In a world of endless notifications, the humble machine offers a rare kind of focus: deliberate, tactile and beautifully ...

CHICOPEE - On one of her first days working for the city clerk, a new employee pointed to an ancient electric typewriter in the office and asked, "What's that?" That typewriter remains an integral ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...

Reporting from BeijingReporting from Beijing — For more than a century, Chinese typewriters have been objects of curiosity, confusion and even a fair bit of ridicule — after all, how do you type a ...