What you have here would have astounded the creators of the Apollo Moon Program. This was impossible even in my college days of the 1970's

The "Calculator" alone would have taken up a whole room in 1965. Now you can have it in the palm of your hand. The Conversion Calculator represents bookshelves of pages of formulae and tables. Conversion tables used to be the bane of science. I recently took a look in th back of my high school Algebra book from 1959 to 1962: Fageddabout it!

The Algebra, Geometry and Astronautical calculators also take up tiny fractions of what they would have just 35 years ago: Less than 2 generations ago! We started flying in space 45 years ago and we hit Mach 3 in a jet aircraft 52 years ago.

Don't forget, all this. along with the whole website and a copy of the "Space Patrol universe", is actually in a few pieces of materials that, taken by themselves would fit in your hand and at any rate the whole thing fits on a desk.

In 1968, I got my mudhooks on some Hollerith cards. Those old punchcards that we used to think of as synonymous with computers had to have holes punched out on a special machine. Now at the time, most of the data was stored on reels of tape. I observed that since we had automated electronic machines, teleypes, closed circuit TV and tape storage. why not adapt the keypuch machine to act as a teleype, use the TV screen as a monitor to see what was beeing put in and to correct mistakes, store it on tape and run the actual keypunch proecess by the tape. This was to counteract the enormous amount of card spoilage due to typographical errors.

I was considered a mad visionary. Well things have changed and I'm no longer considered a visionary. Well, I guess it's a step up; maybe?

BTW: do you know what a Hollerith card looks like and can you do the JCL for the IBM 360 Tape Operating System? I can answer yes to these questions. Remember COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL?? Now it's Visual languages and c++ and Java.And on-screen editing has made typographical errors a thing of the past. You will not find any here, right?:) And If if I find them I can correct them. who remembers correction tapes and "white out"? These were the typists' first aid kits and essential to the trade.

That's what make REALLY CRANKIN' CALCS really crank.

Oh, yes, the cranks are a reference to Tom Corbett: Space Cadet!