DocumentCode
920263
Title
Prestel The World´s First Public Viewdata Service
Author
Bright, Roy D.
Author_Institution
Prestel Headquarters Post Office Headquarters
Issue
3
fYear
1979
fDate
7/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
251
Lastpage
255
Abstract
It should be explained that the name Prestel* has been adopted by the British Post Office as the trade name for its development of viewdata. This paper describes both the conceptual and international aspects of viewdata as well as summarising specific details of the Prestel service now embarked upon in the United Kingdom.
Keywords
Decoding; Delay; Information retrieval; Investments; Spatial databases; TV; Telephony; Teletext; Uncertainty; Videotex;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0098-3063
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCE.1979.273221
Filename
4050173
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