The B5500-XIII-Release.zip archive file contains the source and object code for the entire Mark XIII release of late 1971, translated from 6-bit B5500 internal code to ASCII, using the standard retro-b5500 substitutions for the B5500 characters that do not have ASCII equivalents. The download .zip file size is 5.2MiB, expanding to 28.2MiB.
The files converted from the tape images are in standard Windows text format (CR-LF delimiters), but their file names do not have extensions. They can be opened in any text editor than can handle ASCII with CR-LF delimiters.
Note that the object code is not usable in this representation, but since all 6-bit B5500 codes have printable ASCII glyphs, the object code is in what amounts to a specialized base-64 encoding.
Unisys Corporation, the successor to Burroughs, retains ownership of and copyright to the content of this data. We have entered into a license agreement with Unisys to use this content with our project for non-commercial purposes, and to make this content available to others under the terms of that agreement. You can read the full text of the agreement here.
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A directory of the files is included as Mark-XIII.dir.txt; a dump of the file headers from the original tape images is included as Mark-XIII.tape-dir.txt.