The DREAM 6800 was a build-it-yourself Australian computer using a 4MHz Motorola MC6800 CPU, and was published in Electronics Australia magazine over four months in 1979. Estimated build cost at that time was about A$100?

http://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/comp/d6800.pdf

1K ROM, Load and Save via a domestic tape recorder, 1K RAM that included a memory mapped 64x32 block matrix display for output to a domestic B/W TV using an external RF modulator.

http://www.mjbauer.biz/DREAM6800.htm

The 1K ROM held CHIPOS operating system, a hex monitor and CHIP-8 language interpreter, a “high-level language” for writing video games.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

Thanks for sharing. These old articles are certainly good sources of inspiration !

Very interesting! (Reposted over on the retrocomputing forum)

Isn't it amazing what these people had built back then?

I love that. Thanks for sharing!

& Happy Christmas to you.


Arne

Sadly one needed to wait for 64K drams to come out, for any 16 bit computer.
Everybody wanted to copy the Apple II, low cost parts and high proft.
Did any one ever make a nice TEXT oriented computer, with a monitor rather than a TV.
Ben.