---
title: "stsig Letters"
id: 72212
type: "computer_media"
slug: "stsig-letters"
url: "http://localhost/computer_media/stsig-letters/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/computer_media/stsig-letters.md"
published_at: "2026-10-23T01:10:28+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-10-23T01:10:28+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "A word-processor data tape from 1985 holding two sample documents, a health-club form letter and a camera-club newsletter item, plus a small settings block."
post_tag:
  - name: "Downloadable"
    slug: "downloadable"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/downloadable/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
genre:
  - name: "Word Processor"
    slug: "word-processor"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/word-processor/"
media_type: "Data"
download_url: "https://archive.org/download/timex-sinclair-software-archive/stsig%20%281985%29%28TS2068%29%28US%29%28Letters%29.zip"
mediadate: "1985"
media_type_tags: "Word Processor"
license: false
---

# stsig Letters

A data tape, not a program. It holds two short documents saved as CODE blocks by a TS2068 word processor, along with a 32-byte block that is probably the word processor’s settings. The text is stored as fixed 32-character lines, the width of the TS2068 screen. Typing slips and a few repeated lines are left as they were. The word processor that made the files is not identified; the name of the settings block, `TW2000`, suggests a Tasword-style program.

- `TW2000`: 32 bytes at 36511, probably word-processor settings.
- `stsig`: 2,112 bytes at 36651. A form letter dated January 20, 1985, announcing the opening of a downtown health club. It is addressed to a sample recipient and signed by the club’s vice president of membership.
- `myrtle`: 1,376 bytes at 36682. A camera-club newsletter item paying tribute to Myrtle Walgreen of the CSCC, one of the founders of the drugstore chain. It asks members to lend their copies of her 3-D slides for a retrospective show.

The file inside the archive with a .tap extension is actually in TZX format. There is no BASIC on the tape. To read the documents, load them into a compatible word processor or view the bytes in a hex viewer.