Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. Initial developers The innovations on which it was based were credited to Samuel Fedida at the then Post Office Research Station in Martlesham, Suffolk. In 1978 a team of programmers was recruited from within the Post Office Data Processing Executive. Under the management of David Wood they devel… (More on Prestel)