Hello Beverly,
Thanks for your comment. I also use a rewritable card for my Brother machine, the updates to the PED-Basic software worked all the way up through Windows 10. There's a downloadable update on the Brother web site that helped me to keep it working. Here's the link to the software update: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c...
It sounds like you're using Bernina though. The only way you can keep going is either to (as you noted) use an older computer, or get updates for the software, or switch software.
I'm not sure which digitizing software you are using, but most of the software I know of for digitizing don't write to cards. However, you could get a Vikant Ultimate Box which is a card writer that is compatible with many different brands of cards and is compatible with Windows all the way up to 11. It's stand-alone, so you could save your digitized or downloaded files and then open them in the Ultimate Box software and write them to the cards. Here's the link to Vikant: https://vikant-emb.com/
I hope that addresses what you are needing. If not, please comment back with more details.
Beverly K.
I have been digitizing for many years. As with many things my software has been rendered useless because I can not find a computer with windows 95.... my machines are bernina and uses a rewritable design card. Does this allow for download to a rewritable card?