It was set up by the Nottingham Building Society in 1983 in association with the Bank of Scotland, using the UK Post Office's Prestel Viewdata system.
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Nick Green specified a secure modem based on the Viewdata chip set and the assembly language client software was ported into the modem and bundled with the Commodore 1541 disk drive.
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It was also one of the first sections to pioneer the use of computers and electronic publication in the House of Commons with the use of " Viewdata ".
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Meanwhile, the General Post Office ( GPO ), whose telecommunications division later became British Telecom, had been researching a similar concept since the late 1960s, known as Viewdata.
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He then became editorial director of Fintel, the joint venture between the Financial Times and Extel set up to explore the potential of two early forms of online database, Viewdata and Prestel.
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A closed access videotex system based on the Prestel model was developed by the travel industry, and continues to be almost universally used to this day by travel agents throughout the country : see Viewdata.
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The standard did not define the delivery system, so both Viewdata-like and Teledata-like services could at least share the TV-side hardware ( which at that point in time was quite expensive ).
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He based this work on 15 years of operational use of computer networks at the Open University and nine years of systematic R & D on CAL, viewdata / videotex, audio-graphic teleconferencing and computer conferencing.
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During the mid-1980s, Telemap Group Ltd launched a fee-based service allowing users to connect their ZX Spectrums via a Prism Micro Products VTX5000 modem to a viewdata service known as Micronet 800, hosted by Prestel, which provided news and information about microcomputers.
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Banks also wrote " On the Way to the Web : The Secret History of the Internet ", which tells the story of what was happening online before the Web, including the histories of Videotex and online services such as CompuServe, The Source, PlayNET, AOL, Q-Link, Viewdata, and Prestel.
