Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based...
I downloaded the tarball and had a look through it. Almost everything has source code included, which is pretty cool to see.
There’s an entire C compiler from 1972, bootstrapped to be written in C.
There was also a SNOBOL III compiler written in C, and a Fortran interpreter in C (only 462 lines!), and every unix command like ls,cd,echo,cat,grep,etc…
Unsurprisingly grep was written in assembly, but it’s source is there.
There’s also a games folder, but unfortunately these look like they’re just binaries:
bj, chess, cubic, moo, ttt, wump
I’ll have to load up a pdp11 emulator later to see what they are.
I downloaded the tarball and had a look through it. Almost everything has source code included, which is pretty cool to see.
There’s an entire C compiler from 1972, bootstrapped to be written in C. There was also a SNOBOL III compiler written in C, and a Fortran interpreter in C (only 462 lines!), and every unix command like ls,cd,echo,cat,grep,etc…
Unsurprisingly grep was written in assembly, but it’s source is there.
There’s also a games folder, but unfortunately these look like they’re just binaries:
bj, chess, cubic, moo, ttt, wump
I’ll have to load up a pdp11 emulator later to see what they are.
Thank you for sharing the insights. I heard bj is a good game.
Your mom loves it
Nancy Reagan still has the high score
Monica Lewinsky is right on her heels.
The word is that Julia Roberts took the title in the 90s
Hunt the Wumpus! A true classic.
(I’m serious. Try it. It’s fun. I think it’s in the bsdgames package.)
Wow. SNOBOL was one of the coolest, Stange languages.