Technology is wonderful until it hits us in the pocketbook again and again. I have had an embroidery machine since the early 90s. I had years worth of downloads from Martha Pullen's embroidery club on floppys. I was lucky enough that my local Bernina dealer copied my downloaded designs to CDs for me for a minimal fee. Now I have to download them on to UPS sticks to use them in my newer embroidery machine since I can't use the Magic box on this newer computer to load them on the embroidery cards that fit both of my machines.
I have the same problem with my VCR and tapes I made of all of the Simply Quilts episodes over the years. I bought a machine that allowed me to copy them to DVDs but I still haven't figured out how to "tape" TV shows with only DVDs. Luckily Walmart started selling the blank video tapes again as I was wearing out all of my old ones.