Keyboards (Receiving)
Keyboard Flow Overview
Here is an overview of what boxes to put various types of keyboards in and what areas or programs use which keyboards.
Type | Box | Where It Ends Up | |||
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Dirty or Yellowed Keyboards (Non-Clicky, Non-Ergonomic Pop-Outs, and Non-Macs | Autorecycle | ||||
USB Keyboards Box (Non-Mac) | Tested USB Keyboards Box | Store (primary) | Hardware Grants (sporadically) | Infrastructure (sporadically) | |
PS2s-plain, black | Tested plain, black PS2s Keyboards Box or storage in warehouse if box is full. If storage in warehouse is full, first cull the plain, white PS2s. Then if necessary, cull the black ones. | Adoption (primary)-Receiving folk stock these in the classroom. | Hardware Grants-Grantfolk pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. | Store-(sporadically)-Storefolk pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. | Infrastructure (sporadically)-Folks pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. |
PS2s-plain, white | Tested plain, white PS2s Keyboards Box or storage in warehouse if box is full. If storage in warehouse is full, cull. | Adoption (primary)-Receiving folk stock these in the classroom. | Hardware Grants-Grantfolk pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. | Store-(very, very sporadically)-Storefolk pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. | Infrastructure (sporadically)-Folks pull from receiving boxes or from storage when needed. |
PS2 Keyboards of other colors | ? PS2 Keyboards of other colors Box (does not currently exist). Keep the really nice ones and cull almost all the other ones? | ||||
PS2 Keyboards with lots of random extra buttons | ? Fancy Keyboards Box (does not currently exist) | NOT to adoption. The extra buttons tend to do funny things when pressed in an Ubuntu environment and are therefore anti-functional. | |||
Mac Keyboards with "eject buttons" | Mac Keyboards Box | MacBuild. | |||
Mac Keyboards without "eject buttons" | Autorecycle | ||||
"Clicky" Keyboards (working or not) | Online Sales Box | Online Sales | |||
Ergonomic Pop-Out Keyboards | Online Sales Box | Online Sales | |||
AT Keyboards (non-"Clicky" and non-Ergonomic Pop out) | Autorecycle | ||||
SUN Keyboards | Special Requests Box | Server Build (Vagrant) |
Testing Keyboards
Follow this flow chart and the accompanying instructions.