Terry Vorten witnessed firsthand the death
throes of a once-world-beating analog technology—the typewriter. Its destruction turned his
lucrative profession repairing the machines into an anachronistic cottage industry.
The 69-year-old resident of the Shelby County town of Fairland might be the last typewriter repairman in central Indiana. Vorten, who these days works out of a tricked-out utility barn in his back yard, for decades owned the King Typewriter Agency, a busy downtown Indianapolis shop that employed a team of workmen and at its peak handled more than 20 repairs daily.
Customers “wanted their typewriters back yesterday,�? Vorten recalled. “I always told them, if they wanted them back yesterday they should have brought them in the day before.�?
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