For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

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.

Who would think in an ultra-high-tech world where the latest cyber-gizmos and software gadgets are considered lifeline necessities, that typewriters could still be the means of a man's livelihood.