More than 25 people, many of them Stewartville volunteer firefighters, applied two coats of Sears Weatherbeater paint to the former house of Richard Sears, co-founder of Sears Roebuck & Co. The house ...

WASHINGTON – The latest typewriters known to have been in use at the Texas Air National Guard base where George W. Bush was stationed in the early 1970s can’t produce the dubious documents CBS News ...

The Toyota Camry led the list of 1997’s most stolen cars. Four Rochester basketball players were selected to the boys Big Nine Conference all-conference team. Sam Tri, Evan Odim, and Jesse Kieffer ...

As Cold War tensions increased throughout the 1970s, the Soviets pulled out all the stops when it came to digging up information from US diplomats. This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM ...

Imagine all of the waiting rooms and typing classes it's seen in its half-century on earth. IBM this week is celebrating the 50th birthday of its best-selling Selectric line of office typewriters.

The Selectric is still considered one of the most dramatic improvements in the typewriter space, thanks to its "golf ball" head. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has ...

Walk the ninth-floor hallway of the historic Flood Building on Market Street and you may detect an office sound that has all but vanished, even from the Flood, which has not changed much since 1904.

Metal plating doesn't have much strength. If a plastic ball would be flattened, as I expect, a plated plastic ball would collapse just about as fast. Plus, I think you can only plate things that ...

While helping a friend deal with the remnants of our church garage sale today, I came across a pair of IBM Selectric typewriters among the junk, which I proceeded to rescue from the garbage heap. They ...

While cleaning out the garage of an elderly friend who died recently, what did I find under a pile of 1967 Playboys but a typewriter. It wasn’t just any typewriter but a vintage IBM Selectric II. I ...

WASHINGTON – The latest typewriters known to have been in use at the Texas Air National Guard base where George W. Bush was stationed in the early 1970s can’t produce the dubious documents CBS News ...