What happened to the typewriter industry?

There are very, very few things a typewriter can do better than a computer; the only one most people are likely to ever run into is filling out the odd multipart form, and even those aren't nearly as common as they once were. read more

In November 1992, the company’s CEO, G. Lee Thompson, told the Wall Street Transcript, “Many people believe that the typewriter and word-processor business is a buggy-whip industry, which is far from true. read more

Hoke explains, “The typewriter was the most complex mechanism mass produced by American industry, public or private, in the nineteenth century. read more