Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them.

Don’t have the right milling tool? Just make one! [Attoparsec] wondered what if you could carry a typewriter in your pocket, then followed through with that and built one. (Video, embedded below.) ...

The key benefit of the typewriter was that it allowed the operator to type more rapidly and clearly than a person could write by hand, and it wasn't too long before the original was superseded.

Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will ...

Cambridge Typewriter Company managed to stay in business ... The shop limped along for a few more years, but by the end of the ‘80s, the original owner decided he was done.