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 ...
For many years now I have used a computer keyboard to do most of the writing I do and, though the computer does the obligatory job, I still use, and much prefer, a typewriter. It is on that machine — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1956, IBM built a typewriter factory off of New Circle Road, where it would manufacture the Selectric typewriter.
Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel ...
Chelsea, Manhattan -- On West 17th Street, a small shop sits stalled in time. Gramercy Typewriter Co. is the last typewriter store in Manhattan that still actively sells, reconditions, and repairs ...