My friend, Ian, gave me a DVD of Casino Royale, one of my favorite movies. One of the bonus goodies on it is the original 1954 broadcast of Climax! with Barry Nelson as Jimmy Bond (as an American CIA agent) and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre (as a communist). Other than Bond's naturalization it follows the book rather well, as does the 1967 movie, in spite of it being a parody of parody. Peter Lorre's performance is similar to Orson Welles'.
I was thinking about the summer of 1973 when I first got my hands on a computer. Well physically that is. I had had my hands on a teletype terminal the year before. My high school science class used to bus down from Sonoma to Berkeley and the Lawrence Hall of Science, where for US$0.75 per hour we could program an HP-3000 in BASIC. But that following summer, I took a couple of classes at the local community college, and the math department there had a DEC PDP-8/I. And I had it all to myself. I remember playing Hunt the Wumpus and Hammurabi, and trying to learn how to write programs in FOCAL. I did get a Star Trek formulaic script writer going in BASIC, and somewhere I have a paper tape of it. Later at Cal in the basement of Evans Hall, I was introduced to adventure running on a PDP-11 under Unix. '78, '79, there abouts. I also "word processed" my papers in troff. It took until '81 until I got an Apple ][+, and I never looked back. No more timesharing, no more waiting 30 minutes or more for a printout. Ah, yes.