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 ...
Q: Picking through an antiques shop, I scored a forties manual typewriter for $20. I know this Hermes will inspire my first novel, but it needs resuscitation first. Is there a doctor in the house? A: ...
It could take Louis Bauernfeind as little as five minutes or up to a couple of hours to fix a typewriter depending on what's wrong with it. The 86-year-old, of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, repaired ...
In an era where we glorify speed and nearly everyone carries a computer in their pocket, it’s a surprise to find New York City’s Paul Schweitzer filling up a “doctor’s bag” with tools of his trade – ...