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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now ...

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 ...