Whiteboardiac is a silly little emulator for a very simple computer.  It has 100 decibytes of memory, where a decibyte is a decimal byte, two decimal digits from 0 to 99.  It also has 100 lines of program memory, each one from one to three decibytes.  Its output is a single seven-segment LCD display, and it has no input, though you can edit the memory.

You write programs in machine code.  For example:

37
62 5
0

… is a program to display the number “9” on the LCD.  Opcode 37 is “switch on all segments”.  Opcode 62 is “switch off segment X”, where X is the number following on the line.  Opcode 0 is “stop”.  The above was the first program I wrote with my son, the Boy Wonder, who is nine.

Here’s a longer example, which the Boy and I wrote during his second lesson. It creates a cycling display of LCD segments, reading its input from memory:

I’ve written the emulator in Delphi. It’s rather primitive. The current opcodes are as follows:
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