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Viewdata is a Videotex implementation. It is a type of information retrieval service in which a subscriber can access a remote database via a common carrier channel , request data and receive requested data on a video display over a separate channel.
Samuel Fedida, OBE (4 May 1918 – 10 August 2007) was an Egyptian-born British telecommunication engineer responsible at Post Office Telecommunications for the development of Viewdata. [1] Fedida was born in Alexandria, Egypt. [2] He had the idea for Viewdata in 1968 after reading a publication with the title The Computer as Communications ...