Comments on: Great demos http://effectivus.com/2009/07/great-demos/ helping technology companies create products that delight Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://effectivus.com/2009/07/great-demos/#comment-78 Chris Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:29:28 +0000 http://effectivus.com/?p=834#comment-78 Your Video I/O fail? Surely not! Thanks for the post John. Your Video I/O fail? Surely not!
Thanks for the post John.

]]> By: Chris http://effectivus.com/2009/07/great-demos/#comment-77 Chris Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:28:36 +0000 http://effectivus.com/?p=834#comment-77 Great story and a reminder to us all to never give up on a demo! Thanks Hugh! Great story and a reminder to us all to never give up on a demo!
Thanks Hugh!

]]> By: Hugh R Heinsohn http://effectivus.com/2009/07/great-demos/#comment-76 Hugh R Heinsohn Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:29 +0000 http://effectivus.com/?p=834#comment-76 This reminds me of something that happened to me when I was with 360 Systems. We had a new product called ShortCut - a portable audio editor. Very nice product. I was in India with an early prototype of the unit and we had a presentation at Doordashan - the All India national TV network. I was invited into the office of the Director of Engineering for the whole group - the big boss - for a personal meeting, a cup of tea and a quick demo of the product. I pull out the ShortCut and plug it in and - I kid you not - smoke starts pouring out of the unit. A big electrolytic cap had gone south. Embarassing to say the least. And, there I was in India with the only working prototype of the unit in the world! So - the next day - my host, my dealer in India - Sumeet Thadani - drove me around Dehli trying to find a place that could repair the unit. We did find a place - a little hole in the wall TV repair shop. The repairman found a cap that was close enough in an old TV and wired into place and the unit worked fine after that. We went back to Doordashan and were able to show it to the Director. This reminds me of something that happened to me when I was with 360 Systems. We had a new product called ShortCut – a portable audio editor. Very nice product. I was in India with an early prototype of the unit and we had a presentation at Doordashan – the All India national TV network. I was invited into the office of the Director of Engineering for the whole group – the big boss – for a personal meeting, a cup of tea and a quick demo of the product. I pull out the ShortCut and plug it in and – I kid you not – smoke starts pouring out of the unit. A big electrolytic cap had gone south. Embarassing to say the least. And, there I was in India with the only working prototype of the unit in the world!

So – the next day – my host, my dealer in India – Sumeet Thadani – drove me around Dehli trying to find a place that could repair the unit. We did find a place – a little hole in the wall TV repair shop. The repairman found a cap that was close enough in an old TV and wired into place and the unit worked fine after that. We went back to Doordashan and were able to show it to the Director.

]]> By: John Williams http://effectivus.com/2009/07/great-demos/#comment-75 John Williams Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:17:03 +0000 http://effectivus.com/?p=834#comment-75 Glad it wasn't the Video I/O that failed you Chris! Glad it wasn’t the Video I/O that failed you Chris!

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