If you have an old typewriter that needs some attention, here’s a quick guide for giving it a once-over. Some of you of a certain age may remember electronic typewriters with some fondness.

Typewriters are something which was once ubiquitous, yet which abruptly faded away and are now a rare sight. There was a period of a few years in which electric typewriters and computers existed si… ...

The typewriter had a daisy wheel — a disk with letters, numbers and symbols on spokes — that serves as the printing element of an electric typewriter or printer.

There’s a real run on those.” He also sells new electric typewriters made by Nakajima in Japan for $399, and does a steady business selling reconditioned old typewriters for $200-$250.

Rare electric typewriters — like the blue and white one I myself owned — nestled in the corners, as if they were ashamed to be compared to the classics. “This is the perfect place for a ...

IBM was the giant of the U.S. typewriter market. In 1975, its Selectric typewriter accounted for about 75 percent of the market in the United States.

The owners of the world's last remaining mechanical typewriter factory have shut the plant's doors because of declining orders. Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has shuttered its facility in ...

His own office, inside a giant warehouse, is crammed witharound 70 or 80 IBM electric typewriters – second-hand units, which he services and sells. The build quality is top notch, he stresses.

The typewriter’s ability to both send and receive messages and commands through telephony is what Coward used to turn the Silent 700 into a retro smart assistant. This build is actually an ...