Seriously it isn't that hard to go fast on a slate. Once you get writing there's a sort of rhythm that you automatically get in to. Nowadays I may have slowed a bit because my hands ache. Unlike when I was a teenager. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Deatherage" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:56 PM Subject: Re: The Good Old Perkins Hi, I all so remember the slate. There was the pocket slate and the board slate. I had a music teacher at the Kentucky School for the Blind that could write so fast that it sounded like a type writer. Bill D