"This is particularly important bearing in mind the recent announcement by a major high street PC retailer that, once its current stocks of floppy disks has been exhausted, they will no longer be selling the 3.5 inch disks," said YES.

"Floppy disks have been commonly used in computers for many years but their use on embroidery machines came much later. Even so they soon became the most popular storage and transfer medium and remained so for a very long time. More recently the speed of development within the computing industry, especially around data storage, meant that the humble floppy disk was, inevitably, destined to become obsolete.

"With the demise of this well used storage medium embroiderers were heading for a situation where, once their current stock of disks ran out or became damaged, they would have no way of "feeding" their machines."

The USB Linker connects directly to the machine, instantly bringing it up to date by allowing the use of any size memory stick. It also makes a good storage medium, said YES.

The stick can be set up with folders allowing easy storage of designs and easy and quick retrieval.

"To give an idea of the difference in storage terms between the memory stick and the floppy disk just consider that a 1.44 megabyte floppy disk can hold 43,000 stitches whereas a 256 megabyte memory stick can hold 85,000,000," said YES.

"Just imagine what you can keep on one that is 8 gigabyte (1000 megabyte). By connecting the USB Linker to your machine you are effectively extending its life and removing the worry of finding floppy discs."

For more information and to find out if your machine is compatible, call 01623 863343 or e-mail sales@yesltd.co.uk with full details of your machine.

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