It’s a beautiful sound,” typewriter technician Jay Schweitzer told The Post of the old-school machine’s clickety-clack. “I mean, there’s nothing like it.” ...
Don’t have the right milling tool? Just make one! [Attoparsec] wondered what if you could carry a typewriter in your pocket, then followed through with that and built one. (Video, embedded below.
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.
But in this story, one victim had a way with words… Let’s read on… This happened to my friend G, back in the 1960s. He was 14 ...
The film "Electric Typing Time" features Jane Marshall, a secretary, who trains her friend Grace Landon on the use of electric typewriters. Jane explains the advantages of electric typing ...
Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...
If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage cans.
John Lennon's typewriter could be yours as a British collectibles company brings it from New York to public sale. Find out ...
Tom Furrier still remembers his first day on the job at Cambridge Typewriter 45 years ago. His friend’s dad, who owned the store, asked Furrier to work on a Smith Corona 2200. By the end of the ...
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will ...