Vintage typewriters lure all ages to event Lundquist emailed details and a photograph of the typewriter, and we agreed to meet in a grocery store parking lot in Salem so I could see it in person ...

He started buying manual typewriters. He taught himself how to repair them. He scoured the internet for parts, and he joined online groups of manual typewriter enthusiasts and collectors.

(Originally, the keys of Sholes' typewriter were arranged in alphabetical order, but the mechanical bars kept jamming, so he rearranged his keyboard, putting the letters that jammed farther apart.) ...