Paul Courbis
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Paul Courbis, born on the 3rd of November 1967, is a French programmer, mostly known for reverse engineering the HP-28 and then the HP-48 series of calculator, and writing multiple articles and books disclosing his findings. These books had a surprising success in France.
Very soon, a team of enthusiasts formed, gathering around Maubert Electronique [1], a small electronics shop in the Latin Quarter, and developing a large number of utilities and games (one of the most impressing one was Pacman for the 48, one of the first program using the hardware scrolling device of the 48). Most of these programs are still available today [2], and can be traced back to the original reverse-engineering published by Paul Courbis.
Paul Courbis is presently the chief technical officer at the French Conseil d'État, he is also working during his spare time on a set of tools to help people administrating Alcatel's PABX (for the 4400 serie).
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[edit] Bibliography
Many of the books being now out of print, Paul Courbis arranged for them to be available on-line:
- HP48 Machine Language - A Journey to the Center of the HP48 s/sx. (PDF files).
- Voyage au centre de la HP28c/s. (with Sebastien Lalande). (PDF files).
- Voyage au centre de la HP48s/sx. (with Sebastien Lalande). (PDF files).
- Voyage au centre de la HP48g/gx. (PDF files).
- Le compagnon de voyage de la HP48 g/gx. (with Cyrille de Brebisson). [3]
- Published articles.
[edit] Other realisations
[edit] Published works
- A HP48 emulator/decompiler. running on Unix/X.Window and used for automatizing the understanding of the 48g internals;
- Paul is also the conceptor of the website of the first french computer bookstore on the Internet : Le Monde en Tique.
- Alca-Line., a set of tools to help people administrating an Alcatel 4400 PABX (website in construction)
- the HTTP filtering module. for the Hybrid Application Layer GateKeeper.
- some modules for sybtcl : sp_who. and sybmon.
[edit] Unpublished works
- A expandable RPL interpretor written in Object-Oriented-C ;
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- HP Calculators software library
- Interview of Paul Courbis (in French)
- Maubert Electronique
- Paul's web site (in French)
- Paul's web site (an automated translation in English)
