In Commodore circles the Oric machines were often derisively called "doorstops" as that was the only thing we considered them good for as kids. Of course this was without ever having used one, and was reatively mild compared to the Commodore fanboy hatred of Atari. Much less tried to exploit it to its limits like with e.g. the C64 which is in a similar situation in terms of new discoveries despite how well it was mapped out by the late 80's (I remember finally getting my hand on a copy of a hand written diagram of exactly how many bus cycles the graphics chip "stole" from the CPU under what circumstances - essential to many demo effects that even many Commodore designers insisted were impossible until they were demonstrated...)
I'm not sure about 6809's, but the very similar MOS/WDC 6502 derivatives is still manufactured by Western Design Centre, founded by Bill Mensch (the co-designer of the 6502 together with Chuck Peddle, who was on the 6800 design team at Motorola for some time, though he joined after the main 6800 design was done): http://www.wdesignc.com/wdc/
I'm not sure about 6809's, but the very similar MOS/WDC 6502 derivatives is still manufactured by Western Design Centre, founded by Bill Mensch (the co-designer of the 6502 together with Chuck Peddle, who was on the 6800 design team at Motorola for some time, though he joined after the main 6800 design was done): http://www.wdesignc.com/wdc/