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There's this one that goes one step beyond that, it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71h9XZbAWY

EDIT: there's more information here: https://www.megaprocessor.com/

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I kind of want something midway between the FPGA version and the all-transistor version, something that just uses 7400 series chips (or, presumably there’s a 26-pin equivalent with 6 gates instead of three). Heck, I think even something that goes ahead and uses the full panoply of basic logic chips available could be kind of cool to see.

I think Ben Eater's 8-bit computer is closer to what you want: https://eater.net/8bit/

It's been a few years since I studied it (I even built the clock module, registers and the ALU), but from what I remember the biggest departing point from what you want is that the control logic (from instruction decoding to deciding which sub-units to activate for each instruction) is done with an EEPROM instead of individual logic gates, as described here: https://eater.net/8bit/control

Slu4 has a great series of videos about exactly what you are looking for, with his Minimal 64 computer https://youtu.be/FJsnKu20ch8

61 TTL chips mentioned in this 8 minute overview https://youtu.be/3zGTsi4AYLw

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