Connecting new to old

Hi, we have an old barudan beat 6 head embroidery machine with a 720kb floppy disc reader, we use an old windows98 laptop to do our designs on then save to floppy disc and transfer to the embroidery machine. We want to purchase a new version of wilcom and put it on a new windows 7 laptop and connect it to the old embroidery machine directly, has anyone else done this?

Cheers
Alan