Your post brought back some memories for me: I'm glad my pic helped transport you down memory lane for a bit. What a great story, oshun! Thanks for sharing. I hope you and yours have a very nice holiday season. The best ACSII picture program ever written! As the picture passed through each CRD the keyboards would crazily flash red and ring madly as Santa delivered his happy holiday message and all of us controllers who were stuck working the Christmas Eve midnight shift would get a smile that lasted until we got home at 6am Christmas morning. Santa's reindeer would lead him and his sleigh along the four rows of CRD's from the start of row one down to the end, across the aisle to row two, up row two, around the corner and down row three, and finally up row four. Only once a year just before midnight on Xmas Eve Night the program would run. The whole picture that was about three times as wide as the CRD's. One of the old programmers had, in the early 70's, programmed an ASCII picture of Santa's sleigh and reindeer with a floating "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas" above Santa's head. These were 2nd generation magnetic core memory machines! Software was loaded via punched paper-tape and then stored on those old reel-to-reel four-foot tall monsters you see in old 70's movies and a "reboot" took about 2 hours. The "host" computer was an IBM 9020 which actually was four IBM 360's running together. It would ring and flash red whenever a computer sent message arrived at your CRD. Each of the keyboards had a message bell in the keyboard under a red lighted MESSAGE button. The screen was text only monochrome green and a unusual format - portrait orientation and about 9 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Each scope had an associated text message and computer input screen (acronym CRD for Computer Readout Device - we called them crud's) attached to a keyboard next to the radar scope. In the early 80's I worked in a Air Traffic facility with about 50 RADAR scopes arraigned along two aisles with the scopes facing each other across the aisles. Want to make sending your holiday texts even easier? Try out SimpleTexting for 14 daysーno credit card needed.Re: Some old 'Merry Christmas' ASCII art I didĬute! Caused a flashback for me - kinda a long tale. Do it right, and your customers will feel the holiday cheer from their text inbox. Avoid sarcasm or any jokes that reference gender, race, religion, or political affiliation.įollow these tips (or just steal the examples) to keep your Merry Christmas texts smooth and effective this season.After all, your customers don’t want to get another vague or generic marketing message. This will help your messages sound less like spam. Personalize your text messages with your customer’s name, the date they joined you as a customer, or other details.Take the opportunity to add an eye-catching, festive touch to your texts. With MMS, you can attach photos, videos, and other media files. Add some fun media to spice things up.Customers love texting partly because SMS messages are brief, so don’t overcomplicate it. A greeting, a thank-you, and a special offer or coupon (in certain messages) is all you’ll need. How To Write the Perfect Merry Christmas Text MessageĪlthough it’s the season to let loose and have fun, there’s still a few tips to keep in mind as you write your Merry Christmas customer texts: May your holiday season be full of decked halls, Christmas leftovers, and reindeer sightings. Sometimes, all you need to include in a message is a simple and to-the-point greeting to let your customers know that you’re thinking about them. Professional Christmas Text Templatesįor brands that want to maintain a professional image while still wishing their customers a happy holiday, finding the right tone can be tough. So, we’ll give you eight text templates to work from and break down the anatomy of the ideal Merry Christmas message. The only question is, how do you write a Merry Christmas message that will warm your customers’ hearts?Īt SimpleTexting, we believe in the power of personalized messages on special occasions. ‘Tis (almost) the season, and the holidays are the perfect opportunity to send your customers a friendly message.Ī recent study by Wunderman found that 79% of customers want brands to prove that they care about earning their business, and reaching out with a personal message during the festive season is one of the bestーand easiestーways to build strong customer relationships.
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