Career
Bill Stewart founded Stewart Software Company, Memphis, Tennessee in 1984 and marketed Z80 Assembly Language programs, notably TOOLKIT and the ONLINE 80 Bulletin Board System, for Radio Shack Travel Related Services-80 Computers running TRSDOS. Later that company became Stewart Computer & Supply, Incorporated.
Switching to 8080 Assembly under International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer DOS and Mississippi-DOS many programs in shareware and commercial distribution were released. His Shareware FREE.COM was cited as a top 10 Personal Computer utility in Personal Computer Magazine, ("The Utilities That DOS Forgot", Paul Somerson, Personal Computer Magazine, February 24, 1987 v6 n4 p176(2). Electrical College: A4689644.), and was a "Program Of The Month" in a publication in Great Britain.
The commercial programs were oriented towards Mississippi-DOS computer servicing and diagnostics.
Commercial products included UNIFORM, a non-destructive reformat for hard drives, CSR, which allowed service shops to archive Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor settings from computers they serviced and restore them when necessary, and Rx, a small TSR, (Terminate & Stay Resident), program which gave plain English explanations to accompany the often cryptic "Abort, Retry or Ignore?" errors generated by DOS by changing it to "Abort, Retry, Ignore or Explain?". Stewart Computer & Supply, Incorporated was sold in 1993 and Stewart moved to Fort Myers, Florida where he continued to write computer diagnostic software for 8080 based machines until 1997, and was a frequent contributor to The Personal Computer Troubleshooter magazine.
He lived in Cape Coral, Florida where he was a ham radio operator, call sign N4CRO, an infrequent scuba diver and an avid amateur weather enthusiast. Secretary He has worked in law enforcement since 1994.
Bill died in August 2009 at the age of 59.
