This document provides an introduction to the memory, registers, addressing, data formats, instruction sets, and instruction formats of IBM 360 and 370 computer systems. It discusses the basic memory unit of bytes and addressing using base registers. There are 16 general purpose 32-bit registers and 4 floating point 64-bit registers, as well as a 64-bit program status word. The document lists textbooks for further reference on system programming and operating systems related to IBM 360 and 370 computer architectures.