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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.
Wow. SNOBOL was one of the coolest, Stange languages.