He started buying manual typewriters. He taught himself how to repair them. He scoured the internet for parts, and he joined online groups of manual typewriter enthusiasts and collectors.

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 ...

The Royal Classic Portable Manual Typewriter features an all-metal construction with a wide 11” carriage, 88 characters, and a black and red nylon ribbon.

To the Editor: 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 ...

Shane and Amanda Byrne are the owners of Clickety Clack Typewriters, a new store in Rolla, Missouri, that sells and services old typewriters and is fostering a community of fellow enthusiasts.

Northlandia: Typewriter enthusiast keeps machines clicking, clacking Josh Nickila wants your unused typewriters for his own collection and to pass along to people interested in the machine ...

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old. GEOFF ...

Doug Nichol's film looks lovingly at the manual typewriter. Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard and others offer testimonials.

The last typewriter store in the Boston area is closing. The owner is retiring and can't find a buyer. But typewriters seem to be enjoying a new popularity.