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ensure that the code worked properly and that functionality was not
compromised.
F. Cyborg Payroll
The Cyborg payroll software was a payroll management system
designed to automate the calculation and payment of wages to
employees and taxes to Federal, State, and local authorities. It
also maintained and processed audit reports of those payments. The
Cyborg software was vendor acquired in the late 1970's, although it
was originally designed in the mid-1960's. Given the age of the
system, much of NTS' effort was focused on "trying to keep it
running". Eventually, after the period at issue here, Cyborg was
replaced by a payroll system known as Peoplesoft.
Cyborg was customized by Norwest to meet its needs, including
the need to make nonstandard payments to certain employees and to
maintain different types of reports. NTS developed its own "method
code" which permitted the users to customize payments or deductions
for employees--a function not fully available on the original
version of Cyborg.23
During the years in issue, there were as many as 50 discrete
service projects with respect to Cyborg. They included: Payroll
23 For example, customization of the various payments and
deductions was necessary to reflect different tax withholding
rates in different States and to reflect the imposition of local
or county taxes in some jurisdictions.
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