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jasonfarnon | 16 days ago

old school apple design stubborness: I remember they insisted on putting the grooves on the "D" and "K" keys instead of the "F" and "J" keys. So you had to find home base on the keyboard with your middle fingers on an apple rather than index fingers like on everything else. No, that place has always been a design shop run amok.

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projektfu|16 days ago

It made sense because the numeric keypad had the dot on the 5. Early IBM keyboards (Model F) didn't have home markers, IIRC. But the PC world standardized on F and J, and eventually everyone else, too.

1718627440|15 days ago

echo "It made sense because the numeric keypad had the dot on the 5." | sed 's/had/has/'