Definition of "viewdata" []

• An interactive videotex system in which information can be retrieved or transmitted. (noun)

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• "The generic system name viewdata became obsolete due to depositing the brand name and was dubbed videotex – the Latin word combination for I see text."
• "(The generic system name viewdata became obsolete due to depositing the brand name and was dubbed videotex - the Latin word combination for I see text)."
• "In 1970 he combined the Teledata system with the Telephone system and developed the viewdata concept, an online system via the plain old Telephone system with the television as information delivery system."