Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...

The heavily illustrated book comes in two volumes. “Shift Happens” offers exhaustively researched stories and discoveries about the people, politics, and technology behind typewriters and computer ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

What’re we on, Microsoft Word version 20 now? Do you ever wonder what became of all those typewriters that word-processing software rendered obsolete? We know where a few of them went, at least those ...