Director Doug Nichol interviews Tom Hanks and other collectors for his loving tribute to manual technology, California Typewriter ...

Doug Nichol's film looks lovingly at the manual typewriter. Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard and others offer testimonials.

Battery-free, totally cordless and fun to use, manual typewriters are useful even in a touch-screen world. Plus: the best sources for a refurbished Olivetti, Remington, Underwood and other makes.

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.

You can keep your Optimus and Das Keyboard clickers: nothing compares to the pure, physical, carpal tunnel-inducing feel of a manual typewriter. If you want to bring that feel to your new-age ...

That’s no easy task, either — typewriter repairmen are a vanishing breed, and the few who are left have trouble finding replacement parts for manual typewriters.

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks now has the most popular iPad app on Apple‘s iTunes App Store, as the thesp’s Hanx Writer free app — emulating a manual typewriter — currently sits atop the ...

USB Typewriter Replaces the Keyboard in Your PC The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now disappearing with touchscreens.

India's typewriter culture survives the age of computers in offices where bureaucracy demands typed forms and in rural areas where many homes don't have electricity.

Manual typewriters stayed popular in India long after developed nations had entirely switched to the keyboard and mouse.