If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now ...

It's easy to forget how much time computer word-processing programs have saved the writing public. Before computers, any typewritten document that needed revision had to be retyped again and again.

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 ...