Terry,
I ran a weekly net for fifteen years using my Perkins.  I tried more 
sophisticated ways of doing it and kept coming back to the Perkins.
Pat, K9JAUAt 12:42 PM 10/16/2008, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I was just thinking of the following scenario and how I would handle it:
>
>There's no electricity and I'm NCS on a vhf band during an emergency.  I've
>got emergency power to run the radio, but none to run computers, tape
>recorders, etc.  These devices are all battery eaters, so I can't count on
>battery power for writing things down.
>
>Solution:  the good old Perkins brailler with a good supply of paper!  It's
>noisy, and people in the same room might object, but the brailler is till
>the quickest way to keep track of check-ins and handle written traffic.
>
>I could use a slate and stylus, but my slate skill is abysmally slow.  If
>you slate users can act as an NCS and take down written traffic using a
>slate and stylus and no other auxiliary recorders, please pass along your
>secret.
>
>Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.