I actually collect, repair and regularly use manual typewriters. It’s a fascinating hobby. The precision machining that went into them is stunningly elegant, even for the lower-end machines.

The Daily Mail focused on the end of typewriter production by India's Godrej and Boyce. But as this Two-Way post from July 2009 shows , New Jersey's Swintec has been doing a very good business in ...

Manual typewriters are back, and they're all the retro rage. This article contains stories from leading technology journalists about their relationship with manual typewriters.

He has more than 220 manual typewriters scattered all over his house and in his work shed. "I can't deny there's an obsession with it. There absolutely is," he said, shrugging.

Battery-free, totally cordless and fun to use, manual typewriters are useful even in a touch-screen world. Plus: the best sources for a refurbished Olivetti, Remington, Underwood and other makes.

The Unabomber, though, used a manual typewriter. “This may be a McLuhanesque situation, where the medium is the message,” said Peter Tytell, an expert in document work.

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Eudora Welty’s portable manual typewriter is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. “It’s a quiet deluxe model made by the Royal Typewriter Company.

Tom Hanks gifted Philly Typewriter a 1953 East German Rhienmatall Gs typewriter on Friday. Hanks, a two-time Academy Award-winning actor and avid collector, has about 250 typewriters that he uses ...