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<LEGEND>
This Schedule contains summary financial information
extracted from the Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended September 30, 1998 and is qualified
in its entirety by reference to such financial statments.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                                                            Comdisco, Inc.
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