Open Apple #55 (January 2016) : Henry Courbis, UltimateMicro, ProDOS conversions

This month on Open Apple we sit down with Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by making Apple II hardware his real day job. If anyone can do it, Ultimate Micro can! We talk massive modem phone bills, phreaking, warez, and statutes of limitations. You know… for a friend. Henry talks about how hardware first appealed to him, and how he has leveraged his hacking and resourcefulness into development of powerful & complex modern products. Henry is a nexus of collaboration in the Apple II hardware community, and helping to make a lot of things happen. Henry makes cloning the Transwarp GS sound easy, and goes into lots of detail on exciting upcoming UltimateMicro products. Listen in amazement as Quinn is unable to realize that “qkumba” is a play on “cucumber”. Listen to Mike badger Henry for a Phasor clone, and listen to Quinn’s not-so-subtle attempt to be a beta tester for the IDEA2c. We’ve got emulators, we’ve got hardware vendors, we’ve got crackers, and we’ve got phony museums about to get sued into oblivion. Come on down! More information on everything discussed in this episode, after the jump. * Raspberry Pi IIb – The perfect platform for A2Server (which has just been updated!).* Digital Archeology – Quinn rescues her old floppy collection.* Ultimate Micro – Possibly the hottest new Apple II hardware maker.* UM on Facebook – Keep up with the very latest news from Henry and Anthony.* Philosophy Of Sound – Tom Arnold, who developed UM’s Mockingboard clone.* Dagen Brock – Frequent Apple II contributor and UM collaborator.* Geoff Body – Early collaborator on the legendary Transwarp GS cloning.* GGLabs – Maker of awesome retrocomputing products of all sorts.* Nishida Radio – Everyone’s favorite Apple II hardware maker.* A2Heaven – Plamen of Bulgaria, everyone’s other favorite Apple II hardware maker.* John Morris – Collaborating on new UM power supplies.* UNISDISK Air – Nishida Radio’s wireless floppy emulator.* Joe’s Computer Museum – Soon to be reviewing UM products.*