Mine is a PE 750. Sorry. I said just 750 before. It has a little slit on the side. PED basic is a hardware that comes with a card smaller than a disk ad fits in the slit. You can purchase patterns on line with the .pes format and save them in your computer. Connect PED basic to the computer with the card in it and transfer the designs from the computer to the disk. remove the disk, insert in the machine itreads the disk.
Maria