Televideo

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This article is about TeleVideo Corporation. For information on single-unit TV/VCR devices ('televideos'), see TV/VCR combo. Televideo may also refer to interactive two-way television used for instructional or conferencing purposes. In Italy "Televideo" is the common name for the Teletext service. In the United Kingdom, Televideo is the name of a company that provides outside broadcasting services for television.

TeleVideo Corporation was founded in 1975. A U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals, TeleVideo also built CP/M-compatible 8-bit desktop and portable personal computers based on the Z80 processor. In 1983 TeleVideo introduced an MS-DOS compatible personal computer based on the Intel 8088.

As of 2008, the company is still in existence as a publicly held corporation specializing in building Windows compatible thin clients for networked computer systems.