In Datamation they had these bingo cards where you could check everything you were interested in. So, we just put our name down and checked everything in there

In Datamation they had these bingo cards where you could check everything you were interested in. So, we just put our name down and checked everything in there and tried to learn about the world of computing. When I was at high school in the early 80's I did exactly that with the "business response" card that came with Byte magazine. Then one day, whilst at school, my parent's phone started ringing regularly during the day with calls from sales folks following up and enquiring if I'd received their sales literature, etc. My poor old folks had to explain on numerous occasions that I was just a school kid and that it'd be unlikely I'd be purchasing whatever $10000 dollar disk subsystem/S100 Bus Chassis/Pick System/etc I'd randomly enquired about, and apologised for the inconvenience caused :)