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Samuel Fedida, OBE (1918–2007) was a British telecommunication engineer responsible at Prestel for the development of Viewdata.
Fedida 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.
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