Those of us working office jobs know how quiet it can get — headphones go on and the subtle clicking of modern keyboards fades away. It would seem such a setup makes for solid productivity, but The ...

In the land that begot Apple, Google and Facebook, there lives a small shop where you can still hear the ding of the carriage return. Inside is John Sansone, owner of Los Altos Business Machines, one ...

The insurgence starts with the metal thwack of a key. To me, that iconic sound, that tinny typewriter sound, is aggressive, frenetic, a tiny explosion prompted by something that detonated in a ...

BERKELEY — Maybe it’s the way the letters smack against paper and the ink leaves an indelible imprint. It could be the rhythmic song of thoughts becoming words. It might be the vintage of a manual ...

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It was once ubiquitous in the office or home and now the typewriter is experiencing a rebirth thanks to the efforts of a Philadelphia engineer. Jack Zylkin, 27, has created what he calls the ‘USB ...

For most of us, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...