The Internet was humming Tuesday with a report that the world’s last typewriter manufacturer is closing shop and has 500 machines left, according to the Business Standard of India.

“We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters,” said Milind Dukle, general manager-operations of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co., according to the Business Standard. “The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company. ...”

But Edward Michael, sales general manager at Swintec, a New Jersey-based typewriter company, said not so fast. He said when he read the report on the typewriters' demise, he initially thought it was a typo.

"We are a typewriter company, and we are alive and doing very well," Michael said in a telephone interview Tuesday with CNN.

Before the Internet age, the typewriter ruled. But when the seeds of the tech boom started to germinate, the typewriters' use as a business communication tool quickly faded.

Michael said he couldn't recall exact sales figures but his company, which started in 1978, sold "in the thousands" to private dealers, prisons and government offices.

Michael said if you want the latest in business communication, sans the Internet, there's an "app" for that.

“Some (typewriters) have memory, some don’t," he said. "Even spell check. You can save the document in the machine’s memory, call it up at a later time. It doesn’t go on the Internet, but it saves inside the typewriter itself.  It has a ribbon, it has a print wheel. You can change the character style (50 variations) by changing the wheels. There’s many applications that are easier than a computer."

Michael said many government agencies actually prefer the typewriter for official documents. He cited marriage licenses and birth and death certificates.

We think there's more electric and manual typewriter manufacturers out there. Know of any?