--- title: Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life | daily.dev description: A rare IBM 7496 Executive Workstation prototype from the late 1980s, featuring a monitor mounted on a swivel and the obscure MCGA graphics subsystem, gets... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rare-ibm-pc-brought-back-to-life-vyemc40fm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life | daily.dev og:description: A rare IBM 7496 Executive Workstation prototype from the late 1980s, featuring a monitor mounted on a swivel and the obscure MCGA graphics subsystem, gets... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rare-ibm-pc-brought-back-to-life-vyemc40fm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VYEMC40Fm.png og:image:alt: Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A rare IBM 7496 Executive Workstation prototype from the late 1980s, featuring a monitor mounted on a swivel and the obscure MCGA graphics subsystem, gets restored in a teardown video by Epictronics. The repair replaces the faulty 720K floppy drive with an XT-IDE card for hard drive support and adds an AdLib clone soundcard, making the machine capable of running era-appropriate games. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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