A nice reference is Clifford Stoll's (author of A Cuckoo's Egg) article in Scientific American 2006:

http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2006/stoll2006...

And a way to make your own sliderule:

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/pdf...

The article has the same IBM ad and says it's from 1953.