There is another IBM advertisement which appeared in 1951 (I think) depicting that the 'latest' IBM electronic calculators were so fast it was like having an extra 150 Engineers with slide rules !

I've placed an image in the photo section in a folder I've labelled 'Slide Rules (in) advertisements' Perhaps others may like to add their findings.

Nostalgia isn't dead yet.

Happy New Year to you all.

Dave N
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--- In sliderule@yahoogroups.com, Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap@...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> http://udel.edu/~mm/sliderule/pics/ibm.png
>
> Happy 2012!
> Mike Markowski
>