Thanks for the decade

[mklotz]

Today marks my ten year anniversary joining the Homemadetools forum. I want to thank all the members for making this one of the best technical fora on the interweb. I've learned a great deal here and Jon does an outstanding job keeping it all well organized, a Herculean task given the breadth of interests addressed.

I'm 84 now and slowing down appreciably so I spend less time making and more time thinking. Thankfully, the mental machinery seems to be unfazed by age; memory is flagging but analysis and planning functions have actually improved.

Thanks again to everyone.

[Jon]

Congrats on your ten-year anniversary.

Time flies, and it has flown well. Thanks for being one of the core intellectuals who maintain the high quality of this community, and one of the smartest and most productive people I have met online, over decades of posting on countless forums.

Here's to ten more years.

[Hans Pearson]

Keep going and keep young. Thanks for all the tools and tips over the years and congratulations.

[rebuilder1954]

Congratulations, Marv!

You’ve made a tremendous contribution to this community, I personally have benefited from many of your posts.

Many thanks for your inputs, here’s to another decade!

Bob

[Bony]

Many thanks for all your contributions Marv, I read every one of them and I've gained significant knowledge and many tips which makes my time in the workshop more productive and more enjoyable. I struggle with some of your maths, I should have paid more attention at school, but your helpful website and on-line calculators make up for that one hundred fold. Keep up the great work and congratulations on all your awards, you deserve them. Age is just a number and I'm not far behind you.

[mklotz]

Jon, Hans, rebuilder1954, Bony, et al...

Thanks for all the kind words; they're really appreciated.

Bony mentioned my website. It no longer exists at its original location. The original sponsor died, sadly on his 50th birthday, and no one picked up his online presence.

Fortunately, an archiving service picked up the site. You can find it here...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230526.../mklotz/#intro

and still download programs from there. You'll still need to download and install DosBox to run them. At least a dozen people have asked my permission to reprogram them in a more modern language. I've always given them permission but, to my knowledge, only two or three programs were actually converted. I can understand why they didn't follow through. There was never much expressed interest in the programs and I lost interest as well so I wasn't motivated to reprogram them. Doesn't matter since DosBox runs them just fine if you really need to use them.

If you have questions about them feel free to contact me and I'll try to help.

[tonyfoale]

Marv,

I echo your sentiments about this forum. I am not one for marking anniversaries, although I think that it was 2016 when I joined and first posted. Your posts have always been thoughtful and I have enjoyed them. I am only coming up for 82 so I have a way to go before reaching your level of seniority. Enjoy your next 10 years on here.