Reading Eagle

Business is booming at the few remaining typewriter repair shops in the country

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 ...
OnMilwaukee

Skibba pounds out 50 years of typewriter repair

In 1964, Edward Skibba started Ace Machines, a typewriter / business machine shop that sells and repairs typewriters, copiers, printers and more. After 50 years in business, Ace continues to thrive in ...
phillyvoice.com

Tom Hanks gifts 1950s typewriter from personal collection to South Philly repair shop

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...
The Washington Post

Just his type: In a wireless era, holdout is one of few who repairs typewriters

A candy apple red Olivetti manual typewriter, circa 1960s — its keys white like the stripe splashed across the Corvette convertible of the same shade and era — draws you into Kensington Office ...
Southeast Missourian

Repairman's typewriter-repair service still thrives

DUQUESNE, Mo. -- Forget about motherboards and mice: Bill Lyscio finds solace in the clack of a typewriter key. With powerful computers and laser printers seemingly in everyone's home, Lyscio has a ...
The Ledger

There Are Still Typewriter Repairmen Who Service the Few Out There

With computers thriving in our offices, schools and homes, the typewriter as a means of creating written communication may seem to be a thing of the past. However, just a few decades ago the ...