His system linked a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing pc by way of a home telephone line. During the 1980s he designed, manufactured, offered, put in, maintained and supported many online purchasing techniques, using videotex expertise. These methods which also offered voice response and handprint processing pre-date the Internet and the World Wide Web, the IBM PC, and Microsoft MS-DOS, and were put in primarily within the UK by giant corporations. Alternative names for the exercise are “e-tailing”, a shortened form of “digital retail” or “e-shopping”, a shortened type of “digital shopping”. An online retailer may be …