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title: "Converting Textwriter Files to Tasword II Files"
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published_at: "2022-09-14T02:45:18+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-06-21T23:37:21+00:00"
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excerpt: "I wished to upgrade a three page essay that I had written several montns ago on the Textwriter word processor. The only catch was I am now using Tasword and preferred using it over Textwriter. I did not relish the idea of retyping the essay, so I scanned the leader of the Textwriter text code…"
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  - name: "Tasword"
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  - name: "TS 2068"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
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  - name: "Bill Woodward"
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  title: "SUM"
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  url: "http://localhost/periodical/sum/"
authors: "Bill Woodward"
volume: "3"
issue: "4"
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  - id: 39348
    title: "SUM v3 n4"
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pages: "15-16"
pubdate: "April 1985"
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companies_articles:
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    title: "Tesseract Software Development"
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---

I wished to upgrade a three page essay that I had written several montns ago on the Textwriter word processor. The only catch was I am now using Tasword and preferred using it over Textwriter. I did not relish the idea of retyping the essay, so I scanned the leader of the Textwriter text code with HEADSCAN (SYNTAX, Sept 1984) and noted the address and byte count of the essay. I then scanned a Tasword text code tape to find the loading address. The two addresses were, of course, different. The Tasword text code is loaded to address 33280.

I loaded Tasword and broke into BASIC and entered:

```
LOAD ""CODE 33280 
```

with the Textwriter code in the tape recorder. After loading, I reentered Tasword and much to my happiness, there was the essay I had written so long ago with a different program! I had to reformat it of course, but that was nothing compared to re-typing it in. It now works the same as a Tasword typed program.