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‘We use them every day’: In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard

Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will walk into Mike Marr’s shop in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Marr carefully looks the machine over.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250321-the-people-who-still-use-typewriters