Rachel Spence lost her job and caught COVID-19 in quick succession. Looking for a hobby in the wake of that disruption, ...

In 1956, IBM built a typewriter factory off of New Circle Road, where it would manufacture the Selectric typewriter.

FAIRLAND, Ind. (AP) - Terry Vorten witnessed firsthand the death throes of a once-world-beating analog technology - the typewriter. Its destruction turned his lucrative profession repairing the ...

DULUTH — Josh Nickila didn’t give typewriters much thought. The machines were on their way out by the time he was born in 1985, and Nickila, of Duluth, said his earliest memories of typing were on a ...

It was a stunning machine—he certainly knew how to close a trade with a fellow typewriter collector. To the uninitiated, it looks quite like any of the countless outmoded typewriters that are ...

LACEY - The package arrived via FedEx in mid-April, and 40-year-old Ian McAndrew opened it with the enthusiasm and anticipation of a kid on Christmas morning. Out came a 1934 Underwood portable ...

Doug Nichol’s documentary “California Typewriter” is a rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and ...

There’s no going back. Period. The chosen word has been pressed into permanence, etched in eternity. So, go with it, or go get another piece of paper. When using the venerable typewriter, there’s no ...

Walking through Tom Furrier’s Arlington shop is like taking a brief tour of the last century. The walls are covered with faded typewriter advertisements, and every shelf and table surface is crowded ...

A thrumming rhythm fills the room. Six men and one woman sit across from each other at two tables. A syncopated beat builds slowly. A space bar clicking. A call bell dinging. The even tap, tap, tap, ...