viewdata

[vyoo-dey-tuh, -dat-uh, -dah-tuh]

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noun

an interactive videotex service provided over a telephone line or television cable.

Viewdata

/ ˈ��ːˌ��ɪ��ə /

noun

an interactive form of Videotex that sends information from a distant computer along telephone lines, enabling shopping, booking theatre and airline tickets, and banking transactions to be conducted from the home

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Word History and Origins

Origin of viewdata¹

First recorded in 1970–75; view + data

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Tiring of Viewphone, Fedida started thinking about Viewdata, using the telephone network to supply homes with information from a computer databank.

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You often need special terminal machines to use some viewdata services.

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Users of the communications program Procomm Plus can buy a Viewdata module for conversion of Prestel videotex text to plain ASCII, i.e., plain text without imbedded special codes.

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Viewdata pages may provide "selling pictures," but the screens often have a low contents of information compared with TTY-based services.

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view camera viewer

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