Tom Furrier greeted a customer walking through the door of Cambridge Typewriter, a tiny shop crammed wall to wall with old typewriters. The customer, Ron Lewis, had brought in a small portable ...

There was an all-too-brief period in history where typewriters went from clunky, purely mechanical beasts to streamlined, portable electromechanical devices. But when the 80s came around and the PC ...

Aside from nostalgia, or maybe loaning it out to filmmakers as a prop for period pieces, there are not many practical uses for a 90-year-old Remington portable typewriter anymore. Against all odds, ...

My old friend Alan Winstanley in England just sent me an email with a link to an article in the Telegraph newspaper about how the world’s last mechanical typewriter manufacturer – Godrej and Boyce, of ...

Usually when we are restoring something with a keyboard, it is some kind of old computer or terminal. But [Make it Kozi] wanted an old-fashioned typewriter. The problem is, as he notes, they are ...

Maker and YouTuber William Sun Petrus has ingeniously converted an old 1920’s typewriter into a functional MIDI controller. Check out the tutorial below to learn how you can transform a Remington ...

As one of the earliest typewriters, the Hammond No. 2 is known for its round type-shuttle mechanism and keyboard that allowed users to see the text being printed as they typed. It appeals to ...

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old. An old ...

Miss the meaty mechanical kerchunk of slapping down your old Macintosh Plus Keyboard? Feel as if the Apple Wireless Keyboard’s soft and barely yielding keys barely convey the shaking gravity of your ...

Last April, in front of a small storefront in Arlington, it became a common sight to see young people sitting on a bench, portable typewriters upon their knees. The old 20th-century sound of a ...