Tom Hanks owns more than 250 vintage typewriters and has been collecting since 1978, when he bought a Hermes 2000 in a Cleveland repair shop for $45. He regularly gives them away - to typewriter repair shops, fans who write to him, and a bullied 8-year-old Australian boy named Corona who wrote to him during the pandemic. He even built a typewriter app that hit #1 on the App Store. One machine at a time, he is putting them back in the world.
