@sabi yes, it was unique :). I mean I can see the appeal of reusing a bunch of circuitry, but in practice it was the worst of both worlds. According to Wikipedia, there was even a lawsuit 😮
In retrospect though, I blame it for getting me into computers, so it wasn’t all bad 😆. I got pretty deep into config.sys lore, and my first ever “program” was an interactive autoexec.bat based boot menu