A DYIer going by "Bilbonbigos" built this slick little machine, aptly dubbed "The Typewriter," to maximize writer focus.

Converting typewriters into keyboards has been done for a very long time; teletypes, the first computer keyboards, were basically typewriters, and the 1970s saw a number of IBM Selectrics ...

Owner Tom Furrier is calling it a career after 45 years, and his end comes at a time when typewriters are exploding in ...

To this day, typewriters print names on forms. They put addresses on envelopes. They fill out cheques. And the people who use them, generally speaking, have no intention of switching to a computer any ...

A typewriter, he said, demands one's full attention, unlike a computer where other tabs tempt the easily distracted. "I emphasize that it's OK for a rough draft to be rough. It makes them think ...

In New York City, there’s still at least one place left untouched by modern tech. At Gramercy Typewriter Co., there isn’t a ...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter came to market in 1874, manufactured by E. Remington & Sons, which was then expanding its offerings after a lucrative spell manufacturing firearms for the Union.

But she doesn't use a computer to do it. Instead, she types out each manuscript on one of her 1940s Olympia typewriters — and she has very good reasons for doing it the old-school way.

He says the boom began in 2002, and that people fall in love with sensory feedback that isn’t present in a computer. Why typewriters are popular “The sound, and the rhythm, and the vibration ...