For Christmas my wife bought me the complete set of National Geographic
magazines on dvd (for an amazingly cheap US $25). The ads are as much
fun to read as the articles, and there is a small slide rule drawing in
an IBM ad from Jan 1950. Not as impressive as an ad for and about slide
rules, but interesting nevertheless. It's at:
http://udel.edu/~mm/sliderule/pics/ibm.pngHappy 2012!
Mike Markowski