Roswell's Tom Rehkopf owns about 1,000 typewriters, which he tinkers with at his workshop and happily shares with fellow aficionados, curious youngsters and even Tom Hanks.
An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s not as much use for these electromechanical beauties, so if you find one, ...
This project, by an unknown hacker, patches into an electric typewriter and uses it as a Teletype. An AVR ATmega168 microcontroller patches into the key matrix of the typewriter which allows it to ...
Ask any of the younger generation what a typewriter is, and often they have no clue, though its keyboard pattern lives on today on modern devices. My recent research found that antique-to-vintage ...
MOONACHIE, N.J. (WCBS 880) -- Meet, Max. He's a millennial. He's also my son. He's bright, worldly and can do pretty much anything he wants on a computer. But I put him in front of a typewriter. "I ...
You know time is moving fast when an electric typewriter is an item in a historical society collection. The Town of Huntington recently donated an electric Brother typewriter to the Northport ...
Most days Tom Furrier is hunched over his workbench: clicking, clacking, and fixing. Furrier owns Cambridge Typewriter Company. It's where people bring their typewriters to be repaired — ...
You won’t know what to write your first time typing on a typewriter, becase you won’t know what words are worth being struck so permanently onto the surface of the paper. You’ll type pithy greetings, ...
Nostalgic newspaper reports around the globe lamented the death of the typewriter recently, as Indian manufacturer Godrej and Boyce announced its intentions to pull the plug on its Mumbai factory.