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The Bendix Corporation’s Bendix G-15 was introduced in 1956 as an affordable system for industrial and scientific markets. As with any computer system, a range of peripheral devices for input and ...

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Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable typewriter. As the 20th century wore on, the typewriter became electric ...

Most days Tom Furrier is hunched over his workbench: clicking, clacking, and fixing. Furrier owns Cambridge Typewriter Company. It's where people bring their typewriters to be repaired — ...

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old. An old ...