IMHO, I dont think your lecturer expects you to literally connect up a 7 seg display to you prize pc that is based on an Intel processor........
Like I said before, perhaps you are going to use the pc, with a suitable program that drives the display as you did with a pic.......but to do this you need some physical means of connecting the display to your pc, this is done via the parallel port........you ned to write a program in what ever language, turbo C in your case, that will enable your pc to drive the display........have a look here: **broken link removed**