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 ...

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

Mr. Frederic Durbin and his analog writing students tell PEOPLE about typewriting letters to Tom Hank — and his replies.

Jarvis, too, regularly uses a typewriter for office work. He gives the example of putting together an offer of purchase for a client. It'll start on the computer but he'll then print the document ...

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 ...

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.

He says the boom began in 2002, and that people fall in love with sensory feedback that isn't present in a computer. Furrier believes people write better with a typewriter because the keys slow ...

Cambridge Typewriter in Arlington ... and that people fall in love with sensory feedback that isn't present in a computer. "The sound, and the rhythm, and the vibration, and the smell just ...

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.