Absolutely. I was at a local university, in April, where IBM had donated a mainframe. While the university wasn't sure what to do with it, it was spectacularl

Absolutely. I was at a local university, in April, where IBM had donated a mainframe. While the university wasn't sure what to do with it, it was spectacularly iconic, sitting in its own glass walled 200m2 room. After a while, it had the effect of making students getting interested in banking and transaction orientated software engineering, completing the cycle, joining internship programs and maintaining the mainframe paradigm for the next couple of generations. Wouldn't you? A massive mainframe you can play on as a student, no need for a VM, just log right in!