I have my reservations about monroi too, but I guess they put enough money into it that the USCF says it's fine...

To be fair, in my experiance it's never been used to do anything but record moves.

My experience of this technology has also been viewed as honorable, however unused I am to facing "the future".

Well this is a new one on my, but then I've been inactive in OTB for over a decade. I looked up their webpage, and I'm left with a question. Does it store previous games? If so, could one take a look at them whilst playing? And if that is so, could one load up their opening repertoire to aid in recalling lines. If so, it would give a whole new meaning to computer memory.

Wow, US$359 for a scorebook....seems Apple should have a app for that!

   I too have too much trouble with digital clocks to consider a device to electronically record games.

$359 struck me as quite a wedge, too. I did not realise that people were actually stupid enough to fork out that sort of dosh.

It does store previous games. However, you can't look it up during the recording mode (whilst playing), only after you enter the result.

I have one. I don't always take it to the tournaments though. I think it's a shitty and overpriced device which has a few annoying bugs. There were no software updates for this thing since 2006, however the price is still $350. The database lookup on SD card is almost useless, it get's painfully slow after about 50 - 60 games stored in memory. The price is outrageous. This thing should not cost more than $50-60. 

Where there's a will, there's a way.  And big money tournaments / titles provide too much incentive IMO.  How easy would it be to either modify the device or disguise a cheating device?  So it's fundamentally a bad move to introduce these things.

But they're businessmen not chess players... and the USCF likes/needs money.  That's the long and short of it as I see it.

Well then there is a benefit to being old! I still have the old British Chess Magazine scorebooks, the ones with the orange cardboard covers. In fact I still have a few virgins, wonder what they would fetch on eBay?

they have e-notate. sold at some tournaments. only a hudnred. i don't buy it cuz i like writing during games. you can't jot down your ideas on it.

Jot down your ideas? While playing? I thought that wasn't allowed.

Jesus, until I read this thread, I didn't even know handheld devices to record your games exist. I still have some old notation sheets ...

It's not.

So do I.  Even ignoring the price, paper and pen is my preferred method.

Well, I'm older than the OP and I'm making a return to competetive chess after a long absence. I recently bought a new digital clock and I'm afraid technology has now advanced to the point where my clock is both smarter and better looking than me.

That was true for me back in the time. Handsome Jerger clock, chessnut and ivory pieces ... and then the women raised their eyes to me, paused, and moved away.