Your article “Out With the New, In With the Old” (The Chronicle, December 21) fails to mention that the manual typewriter still has several uses that have not passed into obsolescence. A typed check ...
For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - He’s only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and ...
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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 ...
NEENAH - Thirteen-year-old Daisy Pupp had never seen a typewriter in person before she sat down to type a letter Thursday at the Neenah Public Library's Type-Out. Pupp didn't know how to insert or ...
In the age of laptop computers, thumbing, text messages and AI chat bots, manual typewriters may seem antique. But for some of us, typewriters are as classic as B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme ...
I am drafting this on a manual typewriter. It’s a Royal Arrow from 1950, the same model Ernest Hemingway had in Cuba. I love its glass-topped keys, its serious weight, and its gray square shape. I ...
An "orchestra" of typewriters that play metal, classical and more? Yep, it's a thing – and they will soon gig in the ...