We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Mike Tomlinson
saying something like:

In article
s.com, jgharston writes

and loads of others, I seem to spend half the news program
talking back to the TV.

PROGRAMME for the TV, PROGRAM for a computer.

Hmm. Who first used the word to describe a set of software instructions?
If it turns out the first user was Yankee, then ok, I can give them
that, but just imagine if the British computing industry had achieved
world domination - it would be a computer programme, iwt.