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viewdata

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

noun

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


Viewdata

/ 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of viewdata1

First recorded in 1970–75; view + data
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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.

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.

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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