page_title: Samuel Fedida
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Fedida
caption_attribution_description: page Viewdata Graphics prise en 1978 sur le service expérimentale du BPO
context_page_description: Samuel Fedida, OBE was an Egyptian-born British telecommunication engineer responsible at Prestel for the development of Viewdata.
  Fedida was born in Alexandria, Egypt. 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.
context_section_description: Samuel Fedida, OBE (4 May 1918 – 2007) was an Egyptian-born British telecommunication engineer responsible at Prestel for the development of Viewdata.
  Fedida was born in Alexandria, Egypt. 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.
caption: 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.
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