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Engineer uses Claude AI to revive 25-year-old Linux tape driver

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Engineer Dmitry Brant used Anthropic’s Claude Code AI to modernize a 25-year-old Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives, enabling data recovery from obsolete hardware. Through iterative AI-assisted refactoring and hardware testing, he overcame compatibility issues. Brant’s project centers on QIC-80 tapes, those finicky backup mediums popular among small businesses and bulletin board system operators decades ago. Despite their design flaws, t…
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Linuxiac broke the news in on Monday, September 8, 2025.
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