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After 10 minutes, the screen asks, \u201cMEMORY SIZE?\u201d Allen writes \u201c7168,\u201d and Altair says, \u201cOK.\u201d Allen writes, \u201cPRINT 2+2.\u201d Altair responds, \u201c4.\u201d Roberts calls Allen into his office, and they sign the contract for all the Altair machines. Roberts later offers Allen a job as software director, and he accepts, leaving his secure job at Honeywell to move to Albuquerque, a city he only recently learned is not in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Allen, Bill Gates, and Monte Davidsson complete the first BASIC interpreter, one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vg-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>February 1975 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/february-1975\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"February 1975 - 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