Laquita, thank you for the info I will definitely check into it. Snipforfun some machines still use the cards and there are still blank memory cards that can be used to transfer designs from the computer to the card but you'll need the software to do this (depending on the machine). My Babylock Spirit takes only the usb however I have the Palette 1.7 in when I connect into the machine it will read my memory cards that I've had in the past with other Babylock memory card only machines. For a moment there I thought I'd lost out on using the memory cards on my new machine but it does read them!