My first type writer (I still have it in a closet) was a pica style instead of an elite. Meaning the pica produces 10 characters per inch and the elite produces 12 characters per inch. I bought the thing second hand in a pawn shop, when I headed off to college. Little did I know there was a difference in typewriters.

When I got to English Literature 101 this nasty old teacher that insisted everything be typed of course had a fit when she discovered I had a pica. "You see young man, you get less words per page with your machine." She told me. And shewas going to make me get a different typewriter. So I lied and told her my Grandmother saved up all her money and bought me that for going off to college present. Well it must have melted her old heart. She fell for it. But made me type an additional page for every ten pages the others had to produce..

Actually the other professors liked my pica. They are easier to read as the letters are larger...