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I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks now has the most popular iPad app on Apple‘s iTunes App Store, as the thesp’s Hanx Writer free app — emulating a manual typewriter — currently sits atop the service’s ...

While the advent of the personal computer has rendered the good old typewriter virtually defunct, the fascination with typewriters is still real. If you’ve always wondered what it’s like to type on an ...

PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — In an age of high-tech gadgets that are practically obsolete as soon as they’re made, a group is celebrating a machine from an earlier, simpler time: the manual typewriter.

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now ...

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A candy apple red Olivetti manual typewriter, circa 1960s — its keys white like the stripe splashed across the Corvette convertible of the same shade and era — draws you into Kensington Office ...

Fans of a bygone age have been taking time in Philadelphia to celebrate the nondigital, admittedly noisy era of the manual typewriter. About a dozen people showed up Saturday with machines in tow to ...