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	Viewdata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In telecommunication, a viewdata is a Videotex implementation, a type of information-retrieval service in which a subscriber can (a) access a remote database via a common carrier channel, (b) request data, and (c) receive requested data on a video display over a separate channel.
		Viewdata is still use today in the United Kingdom, mainly by the travel industry.
		A number of Viewdata Bulletin Board Systems existed in the 1980s, predominantly in the UK due to the proliferation of the BBC Microcomputer, and a short-lived Viewdata Revival appeared in the late 1990s fuelled by the retro-computing vogue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viewdata (309 words)

	Sinclair User 1 - Prestel
		Viewdata was devised 10 years ago as an inexpensive method of selling to the public information stored at dedicated Telecom computer centres.
		The viewdata decoder strips-out the data bits which can represent one of 128 display or control characters for the television screen.
		A viewdata modem employs asymmetric transmission format - 1,200 bits per second from computer to terminal, 75 bits per second for the human button-pushing in the other direction.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /001/prestel.htm (1305 words)

	CAL 97 comms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The original conception of viewdata was for the large scale provision of information on centralised systems, whereas the WWW was conceived by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee as a distributed system based on desktop servers, allowing users to both access and publish documents (Guardian 1996).
		Although Communitel was a viewdata system, it supported this latter conception; by allowing both the creation and publishing of information on a simple desktop microcomputer, it had much in common with Berners-Lee's vision.
		Viewdata systems are still in use, but the predictions that were made for their educational use never came to be, despite it having many of the capabilities of the WWW, on to which these predictions have been transferred.
	www.media.uwe.ac.uk /masoud/cal-97/papers/liber.htm (2460 words)

	Viewdata Frequently Asked Questions
		'Viewdata', sometimes also referred to as 'Prestel' or 'Videotext' is an all encompassing term used to describe the means by which a huge variety of information has been accessed and retrieved electronically since its introduction almost 20 years ago.
		Dedicated Viewdata terminals such as the SONY range have integral software and a built-in modem alleviating the need for potentially complex installation and set up procedures sometimes associated with computers enabling even the first time users to be 'on line' within minutes of unpacking their terminal.
		PC Users utilising WORKMATE PC emulation software can print the current live Viewdata screen or the entire contents of a Viewdata memory file to a single A4 page via any printer they currently have installed in their Windows operating system exactly as they would in any Windows application.
	www.justrewards.co.uk /faq2.htm (510 words)

	The Reassuringly Straight Viewdata Revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the most popular types of BBs were those which used viewdata and consequently were run on BBC Micros - the reason being that Acorns were a popular home computer and a modem could be attached to it easier than any other micro which was popular at the time.
		I think one of the biggest things was that the 'gang' of us which was most enthusiastic towards viewdata were all around the same age so we all either got jobs or went to university at the same time.
		It is the time for viewdata to reclaim it's position at the top of the hill.
	www.ccl4.org /viewdata (441 words)

	DTA Computer Systems
		The concept of viewdata was proposed by Sam Fedida working at the Post Office's Research Centre at Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, and a feasibility study into a national viewdata system, which was eventually to become Prestel, initiated.
		The rapid growth in the use of viewdata systems owes much to their many attractive features, not the least of which are the low cost of both the equipment and the software, their ease of use by even the most inexperienced operators, the use of colour and graphics, and the interactive nature of the systems.
		The main advantage of a privately-run viewdata system, over a public system such as Prestel, lies in the fact that total control of the system is available to you or your company.
	www.cix.co.uk /~jhall/vid.htm (833 words)

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		Viewdata tv sets and adapters use a special character-generator chip and a few, mostly British-manufactured, micros use that chip also-- the Acorn Atom was one example.
		Viewdata works on a screen 40 characters by 24 rows, and as some popular home micros have 'native' displays smaller than that, some considerable fiddling is necessary to get them to handle viewdata at all.
		Viewdata emulators must attend not only to the graphics presentation, but also to split-speed operation: the usual speeds are 1200 receive from host, 75 transmit to host.
	www.textfiles.com /etext/MODERN/hhbk (18194 words)

	Networks, Wide Area Network Facilities
		Viewdata or VIDEOTEX is a protocol developed by BT in the early 1970s which permits access to computers by cheap TV-type terminals over telephone lines.
		It was envisaged as a mechanism to be used in the home but the vast majority of use has been by business (particularly Travel Agents) who recognised its potential as a cheap and simple communications medium for random usage by naive users who are geographically dispersed.
		They may also restrict access to their frames; each user is identified by a terminal id., user id., and password and access may be restricted to a closed user group of specified ids.
	www.cse.dmu.ac.uk /~cfi/Networks/WANS/WANS5.html (945 words)

	eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis
		Viewdata will not be replaced for the foreseeable future, according to a group of 12 leading members of the Travel Technology Initiative (TTI), the champion of technology standards in the European travel industry.
		The TTI found that developing a replacement for viewdata is not yet a priority for most travel providers - especially tour operators - notwithstanding their concerns about the technology.
		When it comes to viewdata's eventual replacement, the group of 12 all agreed that XML, which is capable of delivering enhanced content, should be the basis of any alternative, with the TTI's own XML standard well-placed to form the cornerstone of a new system.
	www.eyefortravel.com /index.asp?news=27766 (945 words)

	Microtec Viewdata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Microtec Viewdata has been in existence for 12 years supplying Viewdata systems to the Travel and Insurance industries.
		Other industries use Viewdata systems as a alternative to EDI between the electrical manufacturers and the retail sectors for white and brown goods, Bureaux de Change, the insurance industry and others.
		Microtec Viewdata acts as an agent for various suppliers of PC and Server software and hardware, also Viewdata host systems that can couple on to a computer running database applications outputting the results into Viewdata frames for use in stock and ordering systems.
	www.microtecviewdata.co.uk (152 words)

	Carbuncle Corner - Silicon Village Nostalgia - Editorial 16th October 1993
		They put their telephone directory on a viewdata system and gave every telephone subscriber in the country a free terminal.
		All of a sudden the business world realised that personal computers had just become as cheap as the viewdata terminals they'd been considering for their data entry applications.
		Let the future for Carbuncle Corner, Silicon Village and Viewdata in general be rosy and let the way ahead be successful; but let's not forget that most important word, in my opinion, synergy.
	www.uncleblink.fsnet.co.uk /editorial.htm (835 words)

	What is the Viewdata revival? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Viewdata was always renowned for being colourful and fast; unlike its ANSI counterpart in the bulletin board world which was slow and cumbersome.
		But like most good things, technology moves on, and in the late 80s and early 90s, the Internet started to take hold and people moved away from the chunky graphics and homely feel of the home grown system, and diverted their attentions to the growing internet.
		The Great Internet Viewdata Revival is an attempt to bring those days back; not for commercial purposes, just for fun.
	www.heaven.affection.net /what.html (235 words)

	TRAVELINK - Technology that puts tour operators ahead
		The company has introduced a dramatically enhanced version of its browser-based system and has incorporated viewdata to meet the distribution needs of the top package holiday operators.
		Travelink has signed up a new client every three weeks during 2002, and the addition of the viewdata, the industry’s leading distribution channel for package holidays, is intended to ensure further rapid growth beyond the company’s existing marketplace of over 50 specialist and tailor-made operators.
		Said Travelink’s sales director Howard Frost: “We’ve made the decision to add viewdata to meet the needs of the industry’s leading summer sun operators, and believe that our rate of growth will be sustained because of our decision.
	www.travelink.co.uk /newsarticle3.htm (377 words)

	Prestel and its successors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Armed with a modem or a viewdata terminal and a healthy budget, subscribers could connect to PRESTEL machines with quaint names like BRONTE, DICKENS and DUKE and pick their way through endless menus to find out anything from the latest heffer prices in Norfolk to the cost of a flight to Zimbabwe.
		The original purpose of Saffire was not to provide a real information service at all but rather to help me, as an electronic public information consultant used to the world of viewdata, to explore the potential of this new medium and to use it as a testbed for ideas.
		It would have been unthinkable even to attempt to do something similar with a viewdata system where there are no standards and "gateways" are all proprietary.
	www.partnerships.org.uk /articles/saphhire.html (1185 words)

	Centrepoint Travel Software
		Currently drives videotex terminals and emulators that support the UK 'Viewdata' (Prestel) standard or the French 'Minitel' (Télétel) standard.
		A Windows viewdata emulator that faithfully displays full 40-column viewdata terminal screens.
		An ActiveX control for viewdata emulation that faithfully displays full 40-column viewdata terminal screens from within an IE browser.
	www.cpoint.co.uk (161 words)

	<<<<<TravelOptions>>>>>
		Viewdata facilities for Flight only or Inclusive tour.
		This package allows the user to prepare their availability database into a format that allows the various viewdata polling companies (Latescan, Airscan, Swiftdata, Farebase etc.) to log to the system and take live availability files in the same format as if they were accessing the system via viewdata.
		This gives the user the chance to have their availability showing on these systems that are with hundreds of travel agencies without the expense of supplying viewdata for the agents.
	www.traveloptions.co.uk /overview/extras.htm (354 words)

	Banks' Statement
		This will be despite the fact that other people (especially the people who have developed and/or are selling the product) can see perfectly well the advantages to be gained.
		For those that are used to computers and computing, the use and manipulation of information and the need to gain access to vast amounts of it quickly and easily, the potential advantages of the technology are immediately apparent.
		The majority of the general public - who were expected to jump at the chance of acquiring and using this new technological wonder - have however barely risen above their normal somnolent state to give it a cursory inspection and a judgement of 'Uh?'.
	www.presshere.com /html/bs8305.htm (1318 words)

	COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For over 10 years Viewdata have been successfully providing Service and Support solutions in the Apple and PC market place.
		Over 300 organisations throughout the UK call upon Viewdata as their service partner.
		What's more, we believe in the traditional art of communication therefore every customer will have a number of nominated people at Viewdata to look after their every need.
	www.viewdata.co.uk /company.htm (130 words)

	Electronic Markets
		If you had taken the time to stroll around the technology stands at the World Travel Market in November 1995, there was one item of new computer technology you wouldn't have come across, that is, a replacement for viewdata that is used by UK travel agents for booking travel products on-line.
		This is quite surprising, given the resounding chorus so often heard that viewdata was old and outmoded.
		I believe all the building blocks that will make up its replacement have just fallen into place in the last year and it now only requires some significant players in the travel and communications industries to start the ball rolling.
	www.electronicmarkets.org /modules/pub/view.php/electronicmarkets-290 (157 words)

	SAS Tools - ViewData (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With ViewData there is no need of SAS/FSP to view the dataset, and it works with SAS Version 6.08.
		This makes ViewData particularly useful for mainframe installations that don't have SAS/FSP.
		If a variable has a SAS Format associated with it, ViewData uses it.
	www.qlx.com /viewdata.htm (71 words)

	Dictionary of Computers - viewdata
		System of displaying information on a television screen in which the information is extracted from a computer data bank and transmitted via the telephone lines.
		Since viewdata uses telephone lines, it can become a two-way interactive information system, making possible, for example, home banking and shopping.
		However, viewdata systems have generally not been successful (the notable exception is France's Minitel) and interest has switched to the World Wide Web.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0006298.html (156 words)

	RWA Viewdata Hubs
		We have expertise in the design, development and deployment of ViewData Hubs.
		These act as a gateway, providing a switching capability to allow Travel Agents to access Tour Operator ViewData hosts, thus enabling travel companies to migrate seamlessly to IP-based services at their own pace.
		RWA now offer a ViewData Hub as a standard product.
	www.rwa-net.co.uk /travel/viewdata_hubs.htm (170 words)

	viewdata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If no file is selected, the program exits.
		viewdata is a program that plots the information in a raw CG-3M data file.
		It does not perform any corrections or manipulations; it is strictly for looking at the data of the file in graphical form.
	terra.gg.utah.edu /gravity/software_docs/viewdata.html (327 words)

	Home Page - Viewdata Plus 1.0
		Whilst Viewdata remains the tool used for booking 98% of the traditional package holiday and charter flights, it could be argued that Internet consumers today have better sales tools than the trade.
		Travel agents, for the first time, are able to display associated hotel photographs and enhanced descriptions alongside Viewdata services - from within a web browser.
		Importantly, ViewdataPlus.com can be accessed without a requirement for agents to purchase system connectivity from a specific travel network supplier.
	www.viewdataplus.com (158 words)

	Internet Travel News - NTL Business Reports Rise in Agency Viewdata Traffic
		NTL Business (Travel Division), the travel industry`s leading provider of integrated selling and communications solutions, has reported an increase in agency viewdata traffic for the two week run up to and including Easter 2003.
		The increase mirrors a boom in Easter travelling as reflected in operator`s booking figures for the period, and highlights renewed consumer confidence following the end of military action.
		Jill Cox, Head of Marketing, NTL Business (Travel Division) said: "In line with seasonal trends of increased agency viewdata traffic from April to August, we have experienced a five per cent rise during the week beginning 14 April, compared with the same period in 2002.
	www.breakingtravelnews.com /article/5298 (296 words)

	Modifying the Form to Let You Add New Records (Visual Basic 6)
		A ViewData command button to re-enable data binding, returning the form to its original state.
		Because the AddCustomer and ViewData command buttons should only be displayed when the form is being used for data entry, set the Visible property for these controls to False.
		You can make a data-bound form also serve as a data entry form by disabling data binding and clearing the existing data displayed on the form.
	msdn.microsoft.com /library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vbconBindGridControlToSource.asp?frame=true (992 words)

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