If it was a lease through something like IBM Global Services they will take it back and possibly redeploy it.  Otherwise, they can kind of get lost in the noise, either ending up at auction or straight to an edisposal service.  They are usually parted out at that point to sell spare parts, because the licensing makes it nearly impossible to use one of these w&#x2F;o involving and paying IBM, usually monthly.  Otherwise they are crushed for precious metal recovery.  Kind of sad ends for such works of art.<p>The Linux dichotomy IBM created is pretty stupid.  I don&#x27;t know why you&#x27;d want to run a tire fire on such expensive HW, sure maybe utility VMs, but not as the raison d&#x27;etat.  Instead they should be a lot more willing to provide cheap z&#x2F;VM, z&#x2F;OS, z&#x2F;TPF licenses for smaller shops to build up an ISV, admin, and porting community.  But they charge thousands of dollars for an emulator when Hercules is freely available and ADCD is quite restricted.<p>I recently bought an older one for the cost of a soda <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinbowling1&#x2F;status&#x2F;685240077161598976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kevinbowling1&#x2F;status&#x2F;685240077161598976</a>.  I would warn against doing this for a number of reasons, namely FICON storage and licensing, but if you are determined it is a lot of fun.