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, ...

Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese computing — and central to ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores.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

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.

Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable typewriter. As the 20th century wore on, the typewriter became electric before ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. And this memory came rushing back to me the other day while ...

Prototype turned a Smith-Corona 210 Automatic into a modern personal computer, with the only obvious addition being the external display, which sits on the slide, and is indeed slidden by it. "We'll ...