Were these tapes in any way connected with the HopkinsOne project?
No. In fact, the opposite is true. The university’s creation of monthly tapes for the purpose of making a microfiche backup of payroll data was standard operating procedure before HopkinsOne’s Jan. 1 “go-live.” Payroll then was handled by what are referred to as the university’s “legacy” systems. The eight university payroll tapes in question were to be the last of their kind. Such tapes are not being created now that payroll is being processed under the HopkinsOne system.
