1.   He fought off laptop technology, writing his stories on a battered portable typewriter.

2.   He works, he told the crowd, on a battered old manual typewriter and enjoys the way the hammers thump and carve dark letters into white paper.

3.   The old man I found with a battered typewriter and a bag of dirty clothes hobbling past the post office, mumbling his desire to go to Skopje?

4.   It has three battered typewriters, one ancient duplicating machine, a papercutter, glue, stapler and scissors.