any data on death of Mark E Rorvig? - Microcomputers in Libraries etc

[Eric Christopherson]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Ed Sharpe via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
> wrote:

> Mark E. Rorvig , Denton, associate professor of library and information
> sciences, 1995-2002. Rorvig was nationally recognized as a pioneer in the
> field of information retrieval. From 1990 to 1995, while serving as an
> adjunct professor at UNT, he worked as a computer engineer for NASA at the
> Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. His research focused on
> deciphering large amounts of information and finding new ways to piece it
> together. He produced four U.S. patents on information retrieval
> algorithms. Rorvig earned a bachelor's degree in English at Seattle
> University, a master's in library service from Columbia University and a
> doctorate in information studies from the University of California at
> Berkeley. At UNT, he led the master's program in information systems.any
> one  know  him?
> I took  some  photos  for a  book he  did on microcomputers in libraries
> and  took an into  to dp  class  from him  when I started   Computer
> Exchange in  AZ     I had  talked   into  course years  before   from
> someone else  but thought hey  good  to take it now things have changed and
> I am going into the biz!
>
> I talked to  him again  years  ago and  thanked  him  for admitting me  to
> an already  full class...but in looking him  up  to  get some data  from
> him  find  he  had  passed but   almost nothing out there....in the  way
> of  info except   for the  brief  info in  google.  I  remember   during
> that  class period  I  got  first  pdp-8  m or  f ?   and  brought it into
> class and  showed  the students  how  I would  toggle it....
>
> Funny  this is when I  got  to first  play on the HP2000 F I later to own
> surplus  form the college that  shaped  my entire  future  business  (
> still have it under glass at  SMECC)
>
>
> Having that  PDP 8 was  great  as a tty  tester!  Sold  many ttys  in the
> early  days....
>
> thanks  ed sharpe archivist for smecc
>
>

I don't know about him, but I'm sorry for your loss.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson