Samuel Fedida

Viewdata Graphics used in the experimental phone directory of Post Office Telecommunications in 1977.
The image is a graphical representation of the Post Office/British Telecom Research laboratories (Adastral Park) in Suffolk, England.

Samuel Fedida, OBE (4 May 1918 – 2007) was an Egyptian-born British telecommunication engineer responsible at Prestel for the development of Viewdata.[1]

Fedida was born in Alexandria, Egypt.[2] He had the idea for Viewdata in 1968 after reading a publication with the title The Computer as Communications Device. The first prototype became operational in 1974. In 1977 the system was introduced in the United Kingdom. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1980 Birthday Honours.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Reference Entry: FEDIDA, Sam". Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. ↑ New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967
  3. ↑ "No. 48212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1980. p. 10.

Sources

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  • Infoworld Media Group, Inc (1979). "Viewdata '80 To show Many Teletext Systems". InfoWorld: 3.
  • Otfried Georg. - 2., völlig neubearb. und erw. Aufl. (2000). Telekommunikationstechnik: Handbuch für Praxis und Lehre. Berlin: Springer. p. 28. ISBN 978-3-540-66845-9.
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