I was just thinking the other day how underappreciated IPDB was. It is a valuable service that I use all of the time.

It is nice to have a copy of the schematic for every pin, but sometimes I only need to fix one or two problems. Instead of paying $20 for a schematic and having to wait for it to arrive, I can just look it up on IPDB.

I always download the manuals and schematics for every game I own. I am always looking up information about the pins. When I posted to the Project Pin thread, I used IPDB all of the time to get information about the Project Pin I was posting.

There are a lot of responsible former IT people here who would be glad to help, maybe not so much as a single person operation, but perhaps more as a single point of contact with lots of helpers. I'm a former MIS guy and would be glad to help where I can, though most of my skills are in Visual Basic and Ingres and Oracle. I can create HTML pages.

I have saved so much money using the schematics downloaded from IPDB that I can help with some money.

Jay has done a wonderful job with IPDB. But we all have the right to move on to something else. Is the IPDB Website a non-profit? Could it be made a non-profit?

Whatever happens in the future, please know, Jay, that I would be completely lost without IPDB and want to publicly Thank You! for all of the work you have done to help make my pinball restorations and Pecos Pinball successful.