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I've found another case of Mandela Effect.
The home-row location bumps have been on F and J (under the index fingers) since the bumps were added, around about 2002.
If you remember them on a different key, Mandela has you.
Update: The internets, they be wrong. Again. I suspected they would be, thus the post title which riffed on the old meme, "I read it on the internet, it must be true."
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I learned to touch type on an Alphasmart word processor in 1996. The bumps were on D and K.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to link one, but look one up on eBay if you're curious.
Daosus
The Alphasmart Pro of 1995 vintage clearly has DK nubbins. But the internet says... Therefore...
DeleteWho you gonna believe, Dan Rather or your own lying fingers?
I'm glad I prefaced my post with "the internet says!"
From my experience in that period Apple keyboards had nubbins under D and K, all others were under F and J, so jumping between brands was an exercise in frustration. Typical Apple to do things differently just because Apple.
ReplyDeleteMy 2008 Mac Pro keyboard has them on FJ, so even Apple will eventually give in to convention!
DeleteThey do like to do their own thing. I remember their strict adherence to the published standard on something that everyone else had done a work-around on that made their Airport useless with my internet provider at the time.