You might also like to know of an undocumented instruction specific to the 
360/20.
This was a form of the Diagnose (opcode X'83') which allowed me to read the hex 
dials
on the console into storage.

This was extremely useful as I had the job of converting 1401 Autocoder into 
360/20 Assembler
and this instruction enabled me to replace the sense switches. 

On later machines under DOS I used the UPSI card.

Forgive me, but it's 50 years since I coded one of those and I can't remember 
the operand, but
I'm sure someone will.

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