Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

Owner Tom Furrier is calling it a career after 45 years, and his end comes at a time when typewriters are exploding in ...

Converting typewriters into keyboards has been done for a very long time; teletypes, the first computer keyboards, were basically typewriters, and the 1970s saw a number of IBM Selectrics ...

After 45 years at Cambridge Typewriter Company, Tom Furrier is retiring and closing the shop. Friends, family and customers ...

It was just one of many typewriter shops in the Boston area. But when personal computers came on the scene, the landscape changed. One by one, Furrier watched other businesses close their doors.

If you have trouble visualizing how a company functioned prior to computers, networks and mobile phones, puzzle for a moment how companies functioned prior to the typewriter. Just 150 years ago ...

“They get hooked on it,” Furrier says. “Computers came in and typewriters got tossed out,” Furrier says. “Business dried up literally overnight.” An assortment of Marx brand and Tom ...

After 45 years, owner Tom Furrier is retiring. To celebrate his decades in business, he held a final "type-in" for more than ...