I love the 6800!!! I started my programming career doing 6803 assembly language.
It was around $300 bucks IIRC. I then realized that you could SIMULATE logic circuits with this thing that would take many, many TTL packages to do the same job.
So, I plunked down the cash, took it home, soldered it up, and punched in the clock code.
"Great!" said the wife. "We now have a $300 dollar digital clock."
It was amazing what could be written using only 256 bytes of RAM!