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1923: Houston’s typewriter refurbishing plant

by on September 9, 2026

The Houston Typewriter Exchange was founded in 1906, and operated through at least the 1980s.1 Of course, by the 1980s the company was selling electric typewriters and calculators with memory chips and word processing capabilities.

From The Houston Dispatch (link), December 16, 1923:

Houston Has Only Typewriter Rebuilding Plant In South

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  1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-post/202744958/[↩]

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