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<LEGEND>

          This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from
          Pen  Interconnect,  Inc.  June 30, 1998  financial  statements and is
          qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.

</LEGEND>

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<NAME>                        Pen Interconnect, Inc.

       
                             
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