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<LEGEND>
                           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  September  30,  2000  and  1999 and
Consolidated  Statement of Income and  Comprehensive  Income for the nine months
ended  September  30, 2000 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
financial statements.

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