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, ...

To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...

Maybe the typewriter isn't dead just yet. A U.S. designer has created a USB Typewriter conversion kit that allows computer users to type on their machines using an old-school typewriter keyboard. The ...

Manual typewriters--they just don't make 'em any more! (Do they?) Still, they remain visible icons of the writing life. One man, Steve Soboroff, is committed to preserving the legacy of typewriters.

This tweet from the Wired Conference, taking place in London, caught our eye today as it summed up the benefits of thinking differently to everyone else. The typewriter through the eyes of an 8yr old: ...

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 ...

You love the look and feel of old typewriters, but don't want to give up the comforts of modern technology. Meld the two with the Qwerkywriter keyboard. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores.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