Those of us working office jobs know how quiet it can get — headphones go on and the subtle clicking of modern keyboards fades away. It would seem such a setup makes for solid productivity, but The ...

While we were passing a few days in Houston, catching up on stuff that we can't get done in the country, I was walking in the neighborhood early one morning when I heard a sound that's special to me.

BERKELEY — Maybe it’s the way the letters smack against paper and the ink leaves an indelible imprint. It could be the rhythmic song of thoughts becoming words. It might be the vintage of a manual ...

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A thrumming rhythm fills the room. Six men and one woman sit across from each other at two tables. A syncopated beat builds slowly. A space bar clicking. A call bell dinging. The even tap, tap, tap, ...

The insurgence starts with the metal thwack of a key. To me, that iconic sound, that tinny typewriter sound, is aggressive, frenetic, a tiny explosion prompted by something that detonated in a ...

In the land that begot Apple, Google and Facebook, there lives a small shop where you can still hear the ding of the carriage return. Inside is John Sansone, owner of Los Altos Business Machines, one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...