If the machine gun fire of a buckling spring keyboard isn’t enough for you, there’s only one solution: [Russell]’s typewriter turned into a mechanical keyboard. Converting typewriters into ...

Still, early typewriters' mechanical simplicity and tactile feedback retain a unique charm for those who have experienced them. Many people still adore the nostalgic clicky-clack sound of the keys.

IBM, nowadays arguably better known for supercomputers such as Watson, sold its typewriter business to Lexmark in the early 1990s ... than double that amount of mechanical typewriters.