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.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A new app for the iPad aims to recreate the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual typewriter, but ramped up to meet the demands of digital-age word processing. The brainchild of ...

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. A Philadelphia man has put ...

NEENAH - Thirteen-year-old Daisy Pupp had never seen a typewriter in person before she sat down to type a letter Thursday at the Neenah Public Library's Type-Out. Pupp didn't know how to insert or ...

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 ...

SNOHOMISH — There are several reasons Justin Lamb, 30, prefers a typewriter over a computer. There’s the nostalgia factor and how the machine has been used for decades by famous writers. The Snohomish ...

Welcome to the technological frontier of 2014: Dueling typewriter apps for the iPad. The upstart rival, Typing Writer, was launched in July by The Rumpus. The literary website’s founder, Stephen ...

In an age of multitasking tech gadgets whose march toward obsolescence begins the minute they roll off the assembly line, a group is celebrating a mechanical one-trick pony built to last for decades: ...