When you think of typewriters, what names come to mind? IBM? Smith Corona? Well, we see a lot of vintage typewriters, and the one name that comes up most often is Royal. The problem with a name like ...

TO KNOW YOU’RE LOOKING AT A VERY ANTIQUE CAR, BUT GOOD LUCK IDENTIFYING IT. EVEN IF YOU DO KNOW CARS GIVE UP. WELL, THE HUPMOBILE WAS A LINE OF CARS PRODUCED IN DETROIT FOR 30 YEARS, STARTING IN 1909.

Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese computing — and central to ...