Per Chuck Melton's registry, they were pretty consistently pushbuttons through about #1383, then 8 or so randomly reverted back to pushbuttons after that, through much later VINs in some cases. So practically speaking, you're indeed very close. He lists #1385 as the 1st main shift to non-pushbuttons.
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