Embroidery Machine Restoration

My most recent barn find ended up being a Melco EMC6-MTL embroidery machine, complete with an old celeron 500 "never obsolete" emachines computer with a copy of EDS III and roughly 750 floppy disks worth of patterns.

I am not sure how long the machine ended up sitting, but i ended up taking several weeks digging around for service manuals, scrubbing off years of sewing machine oil and cleaning several decades of lint and grime off of everything. As far as i can tell, the machine itself was well maintained and is in working condition but needs some much needed servicing to get it running smoothly.

I was not exaggerating about the number of floppies, there are boxes labeled 1 - 750 dual density disks and possibly just under ten thousand random patterns. Lots of fonts, random generic sports logos and themed collections such as holidays and whatnot. The disks themselves are some sort of proprietary format that can only be read by some commercial software, more on that later.

I was looking for a project to keep me busy, my plan is to make the machine operate headless and sort out exactly what i have on hand in pattern files.