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My favorite “feels natural” thing on Apple keyboards was putting raised dots on D and K, on the Keyboard II and Extended Keyboard II. This goes under the middle finger, just like on the numeric keypad.

Eventually they relented and put the dots under F and J like the rest of the PCs.



Apple also, along with Sun, used to put the control key in the correct location. They finally caved and put caps lock there.

PCs have a lot of crimes to answer for.


Putting the Caps Lock key above the Shift key came from typewriters, where it was a "Shift Lock" key (it physically locked the Shift key below it in the pressed position). If you have to blame something, blame typewriters.


The Apple IIplus Keyboard looked a lot like the ADM3a keyboard on the left side. Also in the placement of symbols.




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