Bill Stewart

Who is Bill Stewart?

Bill Stewart, né William C. Stewart, was born in Memphis, TN in 1950.

Bill Stewart founded Stewart Software Company, Memphis, TN in 1984 and marketed Z80 Assembly Language programs, notably TOOLKIT and the ONLINE 80 Bulletin Board System, for Radio Shack TRS-80 Computers running TRSDOS. Later that company became Stewart Computer & Supply, Inc.

Switching to 8080 Assembly under IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS many programs in shareware and commercial distribution were released.

His Shareware FREE.COM was cited as a top 10 PC utility in PC Magazine, and was a "Program Of The Month" in a publication in Great Britain.

The commercial programs were oriented towards MS-DOS computer servicing and diagnostics. Commercial products included UNIFORM, a non-destructive reformat for hard drives, CSR, which allowed service shops to archive CMOS settings from computers they serviced and restore them when necessary, and Rx, a small TSR, 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?".