Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram

Tom's Hardware
Jan 5, 2026, 2:34 pm103 pts
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.

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