Viewdata
Videos
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
Viewdata Graphics used in the experimental phone directory of Post Office Telecommunications in 1977. The image is a graphical representation of the Post Office/British Telecom Research laboratories (Adastral Park) in Suffolk, England. Note the "_ to continue" rather than the correct "⌗ to continue", showing a common rendering error.
Detail of a telephone keypad displaying the sextile and Viewdata square
Detail of a more recent telephone keypad, in which (typographic) asterisk and number sign have replaced the ITU star and square
Prestel
Videos
Prestel was the brand name of a videotex service launched in the UK in 1979 by Post Office Telecommunications, a division of the British Post Office. It had around 95,500 attached terminals at its pea
Viewdata
…appeared in the late 1990s fuelled by the retrocomputing vogue. Some Viewdata boards still exist, with accessibility in the form of Java Telnet clients. Prestel Definition at The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences…
Cherry Editing Keyboard manufactured by Cherry GmbH, connected to a Deccafax Viewdata Terminal Model VP1 manufactured (1979–1994) by Decca Radio & Television. Keyboard 11 x 50 x 31 cm, terminal 42 x 45 x 45 cm, 28 kg
Simpatico entry page (1985).