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                                                                     EXHIBIT 1.4

                              Dated: April 1, 1998

                        INTERSCIENCE COMPUTER CORPORATION

                                       and

                                  NORMAN BAKER

                                       and

                               FRANK LA CHAPPELLE






                                 SHARE SALE DEED

                              RELATING TO SHARES IN
                                INTERSCIENCE PLC




                                   Owen White
                                  Senate House
                                 62-70 Bath Road
                                     Slough
                                    Berkshire
                                     SL1 3SR

                              Tel.No. 01753 536846
                              Fax No. 01753 691360
                            e-mail: law@owenwhite.com


                                   EXHIBIT 1.4

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                                 SHARE SALE DEED


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PARTIES

1       `The Vendor':      Interscience Computer Corporation a United States
                           corporation (Commission File Nol-12312) whose
                           principal place of business is at 5236 Coludny
                           Drive Suite 100 Agoura Hills California 91301
                           United States of America

2       `The Purchaser':   Norman Baker of 48 Old Slade Lane Richings Park Iver
                           Buckinghamshire SL8 9DR

3       `The Vendor-Director':  Frank La Chappelle of One Stirrup Lane, Bell 
                                Canyon, California 91307, United States of 
                                America.


RECITALS

A) The Company has an authorized share capital of pound sterling 100,000 made up
of 100,000 ordinary shares of pound sterling 1 each of which one has previously
been issued to and is at the date hereof owned by the Purchaser and the
forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine have previously been issued to
and are at the date hereof owned by the Vendor.


OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

        1      INTERPRETATION

               1.1 In this Deed the following words and expressions have the 
following meanings:

               `COMPANY'     Interscience plc

               `SHARES'      the 49,999 issued Ordinary Shares of El each of the
                             Company presently owned by the Vendor

               `WARRANTIES'  the warranties and representations by the Vendor 
                             and the Vendor-Director in clause 5 and Schedule 2


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               1.2 All references in this Deed to a statutory provision shall
be construed as including references to:

                      1.2.1 any statutory modification, consolidation or
re-enactment (whether before or after the date of this Deed) for the time being
in force;

                      1.2.2 any statutory provisions of which a statutory
provision is a consolidation, re-enactment or modification.

               1.3 Clause headings in this Deed are for ease of reference only
and do not affect the construction of any provision.

        2 AGREEMENT FOR SALE

               2.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Deed the Vendor
shall sell as with fall title guarantee and the Purchaser shall purchase the
Shares, with all rights attaching to them and with effect from the date of this
Deed.

        3 PURCHASE CONSIDERATION

                3.1 The purchase consideration for the Shares shall be the sum
of US $10,000 which shall be paid in fall immediately upon completion of this
Deed by bankers draft

        4 COMPLETION

                4.1 Completion of the purchase of the Shares shall take place at
the principal place of business of the Vendor immediately after the signing of
this Deed.

                4.2 The Vendor shall deliver to the Purchaser duly completed and
signed transfers in favor of the Purchaser or as it may direct of the Shares
together with the relative share certificates.

                4.3 There shall be delivered or made available to the Purchaser:

                      4.3.1 the seal and certificate of incorporation of the
Company;

                      4.3.2 the statutory books of the Company, complete and
up-to-date;

                      4.3.3 the resignation of the Vendor-Director with his
written acknowledgement executed as a deed in such form as the Purchaser
requires that he has no claim against the Company on any grounds whatsoever


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                4.4 Board Meetings of the Company shall be held at which:

                      4.4.1 such persons as the Purchaser may nominate shall be
appointed additional directors;

                      4.4.2 the transfers referred to in clauses shall be
approved (subject to stamping); and

                      4.4.3 the resignation of the Vendor-Director shall be
accepted

                4.5 Upon completion of the matters referred to in clauses 4.2 to
4.4 the Purchaser shall deliver to the Vendor' solicitors a banker's draft for
the amount of the purchase consideration for the Shares.

        5 WARRANTIES AND UNDERTAKINGS BY THE VENDOR AND THE VENDOR-DIRECTOR

                5.1 The Vendor and the Vendor-Director jointly and severally
warrant to the Purchaser that the Warranties set out in Schedule 2 are true and
accurate in all respects.

                5.2 Each of the Warranties is without prejudice to any other
warranty or undertaking and, except where expressly stated, no clause contained
in this Deed governs or limits the extent or application of any other clause.

                5.3 The rights and remedies of the Purchaser in respect of any
breach of the Warranties shall not be affected by completion of the purchase of
the Shares, by any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser into the
affairs of the Company, by any failure to exercise or delay in exercising any
right or remedy or by any other event or matter whatsoever, except a specific
and duly authorized written waiver or release.

                5.4 The Vendor and the Vendor-Director jointly and severally
undertake to use their utmost endeavors to procure that with effect from
Completion of this Deed the Company and all its assets shall be released from
any guarantee or surety given in relation to the indebtedness of the Vendor
and/or the Company and/or any company within the same group of companies as the
Company and/or the Vendor and in particular (but without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing) to procure the immediate release of the Company
from the guarantee dated [July 1996] and executed by the Company in favour of
the [Sanwa Bank] The Vendor and the Vendor-Director further undertake to
indemnify the Company immediately upon demand against any and all liabilities,
damages, losses, costs or expenses (including without limitation consequential
losses) it may incur as a result of the failure of the Vendor and/or the
Vendor-Director to procure the release of the Company as set in this clause 5.4.


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        6 RESTRICTIVE AGREEMENT

                6.1 For the purpose of assuring to the Purchaser the full
benefit of the businesses and goodwill of the Company, each of the Vendor and
the Vendor-Director jointly and severally undertake as separate and independent
agreements that he will not without the express prior authority of the
Purchaser:

                      6.1.1 at any time after Completion disclose to any person,
or himself use for any purpose, and shall use his best endeavors to prevent the
publication or disclosure of, any information concerning the business, accounts
or finances of the Company or any of its clients' or customers transactions or
affairs, which may, or may have, come to his knowledge;

                      6.1.2 for a period of one year after Completion either on
his own account or for any other person directly or indirectly solicit,
interfere with or endeavor to entice away from the Company any person who to his
knowledge is now or has during the one year preceding the date of this Deed been
a client, customer or employee of, or in the habit of dealing with, the Company;

                      6.1.3 for a period of one year after Completion, either
alone or jointly with or as manager, agent for or employee of any person,
directly or indirectly carry on or be engaged or concerned or interested (a) in
the business of the sale and/or supply of fusing agent for use in printers; or
(b) in any other business similar to any business carried on by the Company at
the date of this Deed.

        7 COMMUNICATIONS

                7.1 All communications between the parties with respect to this
Deed shall be delivered by hand or sent by first class prepaid post (except
where the address for service of the addressee is in a different country to that
from which the communication is being despatched in which case such
communication shall be sent by airmail) to the address of the addressee as set
out in this Deed or to such other address as the addressee may from time to time
have notified for the purpose of and in accordance with this clause.

                7.2 Communications addressed to the Purchaser shall be marked
for his personal attention.

                7.3 In proving service by post or airmail it shall only be
necessary to prove that the communication was contained in an envelope which was
duly addressed and posted in accordance with this clause.

                7.4 Communications served between the parties shall be deemed to
have been served on the addressee, if delivered by hand, immediately upon
delivery, if sent by first


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class prepaid post, on the second business day after posting and, if sent by
airmail, on the seventh business day after posting in accordance with this
clause.

                                   SCHEDULE 1

                             Details of the Company

PART 1: THE COMPANY        INTERSCIENCE PLC

Company number:            2865344

Date of incorporation:     25.10.1993

Share capital:

        Authorized         [pound sterling]100,000 divided into
                           [pound sterling]1 shares

        Issued             50,000 ordinary

Registered office:         Enterprise House Ashford Road Ashford Middlesex 
                           TW15 1XB

Directors:                 Norman Baker of 48 Old Slade Lane Richings Park 
                           Iver Buckinghamshire SL8 9DR

                           Frank J La Chappelle of One Stirrup Lane, Bell Canyon
                           California 91307 United States of America




                                   SCHEDULE 2
                                   Warranties

                1.1 The Shares constitute the whole of the issued and allotted
share capital of the Company.

                1.2 There are no agreements or arrangements in force, other than
this Deed, which grant to any person the right to call for the issue, allotment
or transfer of any share or loan capital of the Company.

                1.3 No power of attorney given by the Company is in force.


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EXECUTED AS A DEED BY               )
INTERSCIENCE COMPUTER CORPORATION   ) /s/ Walter Kornbluh
                                      --------------------------
and signed by:-                     ) President



SIGNED AS A DEED by the above-named )
NORMAN BAKER                        )
in the presence of:-                ) /s/ NORMAN BAKER
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SIGNED AS A DEED by the above-named )
FRANK LA CHAPPELLE                  )
in the presence of:-                ) /s/ FRANK LA CHAPPELLE
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