viewdata

American  

[vyoo-dey-tuh, -dat-uh, -dah-tuh] / ˈvyuˌdeɪ tə, -ˌdæt ə, -ˌdɑ tə /

noun

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

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Viewdata British  

/ ˈvjuːˌdeɪtə /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of viewdata

First recorded in 1970–75; view + data

Example Sentences

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

From Time

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg