Imagine all of the waiting rooms and typing classes it's seen in its half-century on earth. IBM this week is celebrating the 50th birthday of its best-selling Selectric line of office typewriters.

If you can remember how to change a typewriter ribbon - even if you've since forgotten but once could - this news is about to leave you feeling, well, old. Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company, the ...

Those in leadership positions at what is now Central Business Systems have always been masters of the pivot. Back in the day, the company just sold and fixed typewriters. Now its employees are poised ...

PITTSBURGH – Jim Droney was a young college graduate aiming to build a career in sales in Boston when his father asked him to return to his hometown to help run an office supplies company. That was ...

In the age of digital burnout, we revisit a machine that dominated the city’s workforce through the eyes of two hobbyists and restorers who continue to preserve it Ernest Hemingway used one, as did F ...

Los Angeles artist Tim Youd will be in the parking lot of the Downtown Terminal Annex Post Office for the next 10 days. It’s where Charles Bukowski worked for 12 years and where his first novel, “Post ...

In the 21st century when most of the world’s typewriter manufacturing companies have long closed shops, the National Theatre is spending a whopping sum of N22.8 million to purchase the few remaining ...

One sheet at a time, one letter at a time, the typewriter did the world’s paperwork for more than 100 years, culminating in the Brother electronic machines shown in this April 10, 1988 Eagle-Gazette ...

BOSTON - At most concerts, it's a traditional band or a singer that's the big draw. For the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, it's the typewriters. They use old-style typewriters to give them their ...