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I worked with Stewart for several years on a play on Gary Kildall. He would drive down from the Bay Area and I would drive up from the Monterey Peninsula and we would meet in inbetween towns such as Watsonville, Morgan Hill or Gilroy, and work on the manuscript. We did this until Covid struck, then stopped because of Stewart's health, connecting mainly through the internet or phone. . I had written the play first on my own, and he saw it and contacted me and after we met a couple times I asked him if he wanted co-authorship and he said he did. I had called the play A Mild Concussion, because that's what Gary had been diagnosed with after the fall in the Franklin Street Bar and Grill in Monterey. Also, I didn't use real names. Stewart wanted to, so we did, and changed the title to The Forgotten Computer Genius, a title he liked. I have emails from Stewart discussing the play. It is set in the final few days of his life, as he nurses his injury and tries to recall to a friend, a woman, all that has happened. The play, which was praised, after reading, by Sir Harold Evans, the late author of They Made America, which includes an incisive chapter on Kildall, and is ready for production - Steve Hauk.


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