MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The hypnotic rhythm of an old manual typewriter going clack-clack-clack-clack-ping! clack-clack-clack-clack-ping! is like a long-ago song that Montgomery's William Lee never tires ...

BOSTON - At most concerts, it's a traditional band or a singer that's the big draw. For the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, it's the typewriters. They use old-style typewriters to give them their ...

Aside from nostalgia, or maybe loaning it out to filmmakers as a prop for period pieces, there are not many practical uses for a 90-year-old Remington portable typewriter anymore. Against all odds, ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

Ron Saba forcefully snaps each key on an old Olympia typewriter he’s opened up on his workbench. Meticulously, he wipes down the letters and sprays some sewing machine oil into the mechanics. When ...

This June 28, 2019 photo shows a shelf of vintage typewriters in the repair shop of the Gramercy Typewriter Co., in New York. Vintage typewriters are sent for repair and restoration daily from around ...