Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - In 1932, the late Abraham Schweitzer started Gramercy Typewriter Company, a typewriter retail and repair business. "And here we are, all these years later, still in the ...

Typewriters have survived the computer age and are thriving thrive among pockets of new customers. Gramercy Typewriter Company in New York City has seen a resurgence in sales of manual typewriters, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. And this memory came rushing back to me the other day while ...

For most of us, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

Photos by WRAL-TV 5's Rick ArmstrongAutomobiles came and the buggy-whip industry went. The invention of the telephone virtually put the telegraph business,outof business. So it would follow that, in ...

Ed Skibba tests a Remington typewriter after repairing it Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 at Ace Business Machines in West Allis, Wis. Ace is among a handful of Milwaukee shops that repair typewriters and have ...

Crocs into LEGO feet, a basement into a Gamestop, three different gaming consoles into one—we’ve talked about a lot of amazing transformations here before.

What’re we on, Microsoft Word version 20 now? Do you ever wonder what became of all those typewriters that word-processing software rendered obsolete? We know where a few of them went, at least those ...