Community NewsThe Collector Communities Online: A Field Guide to the Forums That Still WorkThe typewriter hobby lives online in forums, databases, and social spaces. This directory explains what each resource is for, how to ask useful questions, and why you should check recent activity before depending on a forum.Department
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Type-ins, museum openings, auction results, and interviews with the people keeping mechanical writing alive across four continents.
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Community NewsThe Collector Communities Online: A Field Guide to the Forums That Still WorkThe typewriter hobby lives online in forums, databases, and social spaces. This directory explains what each resource is for, how to ask useful questions, and why you should check recent activity before depending on a forum.
Community NewsThe Repair Shop Problem: Where to Take a Machine When the Bench Is GoneThe typewriter repair shop was a fixture of every business district until the 1980s. Now there are a few dozen left in the world. Here is how to find one, when to ship, and when to learn the bench yourself.
Community NewsReading an Estate Sale for Typewriters Before Anyone Else DoesEstate sales still surface the best machines at the best prices, but only if you know how to read the listing before the sale opens. Here are the signals that separate a productive drive from a wasted morning.
Community NewsType-Ins Return: A Report From Six Spring MeetupsSix type-ins in six cities across two months. Attendance is up, the average age of attendees is down, and the machines being carried are, for the first time in years, mostly late-model portables under fifteen dollars.
Community NewsNotes from the Zurich Typewriter Meetup, Spring 2026Sixty collectors, forty tables, and a Hermes Ambassador that had not left its case since 1968. A dispatch from the informal Swiss typewriter gathering in a converted Zurich tram depot.
Community NewsThe Restorer Who Rebuilt a City's Typewriters: A Conversation With Rita DuarteIn fifteen years, Rita Duarte has repaired more than two thousand typewriters from her small workshop in Lisbon's Alfama district. She talks about learning the trade, the machines she has come to love, and the ones she refuses to work on.
Community NewsNew Wing at Milwaukee's Typewriter Museum: The Hammond Collection OpensTwo hundred and forty machines from the collection of Ernest and Miriam Hammond, gifted to the Milwaukee Typewriter Museum on Ernest's death in 2024, opened to the public this month. The exhibition rewrites what we know about early American manufacturing.