> If, on the other hand, you want to buy a brand-new typewriter, that too remains possible. Many thousands are still manufactured every year. Todd Althoff is president of Royal, a US company that has been making typewriters since 1904. "We're going to continue," he insists. "Obviously [there is] not that much growth but it's sustainable and we keep the factory busy."<p>> The factory is in Indonesia, he explains, and is run by a team from Nakajima, a typewriter manufacturing firm from Japan. Every year, Royal still sells around 20,000 new electric typewriters and more than double that amount of mechanical typewriters. The latter have become desirable partly as decoration – a librarian might buy one for a display at the front of their library, for instance, suggests Althoff. The mechanical and electric models Royal sells cost between $300 (£238) and $400 (£317).<p>These might be it:<p><a href="https://royal.com/product/royal-scriptor-typewriter/" rel="nofollow">https://royal.com/product/royal-scriptor-typewriter/</a><p><a href="https://royal.com/product/royal-scriptor-ii-typewriter/" rel="nofollow">https://royal.com/product/royal-scriptor-ii-typewriter/</a><p><a href="https://royal.com/product/royal-classic-manual-typewriter/" rel="nofollow">https://royal.com/product/royal-classic-manual-typewriter/</a><p>I’ve only used a mechanical typewriter when I was a kid and you don’t really see those nowadays, but there is certain charm to them.<p>Much like how I’d like to some day own one of those IBM Model M pattern keyboards (most likely one of the modern versions made by Unicomp).