Thanks for all the info. I know a computer is not necessary to run the machine, but I knew it was necessary to transfer designs to the machine.

Seems like the real problem is the machine accepting the files from the USB...a quote from the article... "Owners of Viking Designer 1 machines can write both floppy and USB sticks using a built-in CIM utility similar to your Disk manager program!

Baby Lock, Brother and Janome machines which usually do not like Mac-written USB sticks will work with Convert It, Mac! This works because CIM can remove the hidden Mac OS files from the stick which often confuses those machines. "

Food for thought....