For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...

Your article “Out With the New, In With the Old” (The Chronicle, December 21) fails to mention that the manual typewriter still has several uses that have not passed into obsolescence. A typed check ...

He's only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and old machines. He uses ...

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MANUAL TYPEWRITERS may be anachronisms in a touch-screen world, but they are experiencing a renaissance of sorts, and not only among writers arched over their desks like commas. While the comeback has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - He’s only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and ...

In the age of laptop computers, thumbing, text messages and AI chat bots, manual typewriters may seem antique. But for some of us, typewriters are as classic as B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme ...