Paul Courbis is a French

France

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 programmer

Programmer

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, mostly known for reverse engineering

Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object, or system through analysis of its structure, function, and operation...

 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 http://www.maubert.com, a small electronics shop in the Latin Quarter

Latin Quarter

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, 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 http://www.hpcalc.org, and can be traced back to the original reverse-engineering published by Paul Courbis.

Paul Courbis is presently the chief information officer

Chief information officer

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 at the French Ordre National des Médecins, he is also working during his spare time on a set of tools to help people administrating Alcatel

Alcatel

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's PABX (for the 4400 series). He also publishs various tricks (iPhone, shells scripts, etc...) on his web site.

Published works

• A HP48  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 : , a set of tools to help people administrating an Alcatel 4400 PABX (website in construction)
• the for the
• some modules for sybtcl : and

External links

• HP Calculators software library
• Interview of Paul Courbis (in French
  French language
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• Maubert Electronique
• Paul Courbis web site (in French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
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• Travis Goodspeed's lecture about "Voyage au centre de la HP28c/s" during the Defcon 16 conference (August 2008)
• Paul's profile on LinkedIn