For a century, the typewriter was king. It was the essential tool of every aspiring novelist, intrepid journalist, serious secretary and ambitious college student. During its reign, anything worth the ...

Atlantis Word Processor enables you to effortlessly create documents. The software looks outdated, but it features a handful of useful options not found in Microsoft Word. Power Type: Atlantis Word ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

The AlphaSmart Neo2 is a portable word processor that was released nearly two decades ago as a device that provides a distraction-free writing experience without all the extra stuff that comes with a ...

“Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing,” an upcoming book by Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, will cover the first authors to use word processors and how they saw the tool in relation to ...

Paul Schweitzer is one of a dying breed. As owner of Gramercy Typewriter Co. in New York City, he repairs machines that many consider obsolete. "The younger generation says, 'Who needs typewriters?'" ...