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                           Programmer's Paradise Inc.
                                   Exhibit 27
                             Financial Data Schedule
                (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)


         This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Company's  Consolidated Balance Sheet at June 30, 2000 and 1999 and Consolidated
Statement of Income and  Comprehensive  Income for the six months ended June 30,
2000 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.

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