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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a)
of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f)
of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person 2. Date of Event Requiring 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or 6. If Amendment, Date
Amedia Frank J. Statement Trading Symbol of Original
- ---------------------------------------- (Month/Day/Year) FORTE COMPUTER EASY, INC.; CEAS (Month/Day/Year)
(Last) (First) (Middle) 3/1/95 ------------------------------------
1350 Albert Street ---------------------------- 5. Relationship of Reporting
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(Street) Number of Reporting (Check all applicable)
Person (Voluntary) X X
Youngstown Ohio 44505 ----- Director ----- 10% Owner
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(City) (State) (Zip) ----- Officer ----- Other (specify
(give title below) below)
President
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TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Indirect (I) Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 5)
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Common Stock, $.01 par value 27,628,077 D
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
(Print or Type Responses) SEC 1473 (8/92)
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date 3. Title and Amount of 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Exercisable and Securities Underlying sion or ship Beneficial Ownership
Expiration Date Derivative Security Exercise Form of (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ (Instr. 4) Price of Deriv-
Year) Deri- ative
vative Security:
Security Direct
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Date Expira- Amount or Indirect (I)
Exercis- tion Title Number (Instr. 5)
able Date of Shares
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Common Stock Acquisition Rights(1) (1) none Common Stock 2,042,745 (1) D
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Options 6/8/94 6/8/98 Common Stock 4,262,440 $.375 D
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) In connection with the acquisition of Mr. Amedia's shares in Forte, Inc., Forte Computer Easy, Inc. agreed to issue to Mr.
Amedia 1,718,422 shares of common stock will be issued to Mr. Amedia at such time when there is a sufficient number of
authorized and unissued and unreserved shares of common stock available for Forte Computer Easy, Inc. to issue such shares,
and Forte, Inc. is obligated to issue to Mr. Amedia 324,323 shares of common stock.
/s/ Frank J. Amedia 2/12/97
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal ------------------------------- -------------
Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). **Signature of Reporting Person Date
Frank J. Amedia
Note. File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. Page 2
If space provided is insufficient, See Instruction 6 for procedure. SEC 1473 (8/92)
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