Exhibit 10(l)

               NOTE SECURED BY SECOND DEED OF TRUST
                         (Mortgage Loan)

$300,000.00                       September 27, 1994
                                  Sunnyvale, California

    FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, Bruce J. Ryan and
Kathleen M. Ryan, husband and wife ("Makers"), promise to pay,
jointly and severally, to the order of Amdahl Corporation
("Amdahl"), at its principal offices at 1250 East Arques Avenue,
Sunnyvale, California, the principal sum of Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00), together with interest (from the
date of this Note until the date of payment) on the unpaid
balance at seven and five-hundredths percent interest (7.05%) per
annum, compounded annually.  Unless this Note is previously paid,
forgiven or accelerated as specified in the terms hereinafter
provided, the principal balance under this Note and all accrued
interest shall be paid in full on September 26, 2000.  

    This Note constitutes a portion of the unpaid balance of the
purchase price of the real property defined in Section 1 of this
Note, purchased by Makers and securing this Note.

    This Note shall be subject to the following terms and
conditions:

    1.  Second Deed of Trust.  This Note is secured by a Second
Deed of Trust on the real property located at 14580 Clearview
Drive, Los Gatos, California  95030, parcel number 409-29-020,
executed the 27th day of September, 1994.

    2.  Payment Terms.  On January 15, April 15, July 15 and
October 15 of each year that this Note remains outstanding,
commencing with January 15, 1995, the accrued interest through
the first of that month shall be due and payable.

    3.  Application of Payments.  Each payment shall be made in
lawful tender of the United States and, except for the Annual
Credit set forth in Section 4 of this Note, shall be credited
first to accrued interest then due and payable and the remainder
shall then be applied to principal.  Prepayment of principal,
together with all accrued interest, may be made at any time,
without penalty, on or before September 26th of each year that
this Note remains outstanding.

    4.  Annual Credit.  So long as Makers are not in default of
this Note or payment of this Note has not been accelerated
pursuant to Section 5 of this Note then Amdahl shall credit Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) toward the outstanding principal
balance of the Note commencing September 26, 1995 and continuing
on September 26th of each year that this Note remains
outstanding.

    5.  Events of Acceleration.  Payment of the unpaid balance
of this Note (principal plus accrued unpaid interest to date)
shall be subject to acceleration upon the following terms and
conditions:

              A.  At the election of Amdahl, or other holder of
this Note, fifteen days (15) following the date Mr. Ryan shall
for whatever reason cease to be an employee of Amdahl, then the
entire unpaid balance of this Note shall become immediately due
and payable.

              B.  Upon the insolvency of Makers, the commission
of any act of bankruptcy by Makers, the execution by Makers of a
general assignment for the benefit of creditors, the filing by or
against Makers of any petition in bankruptcy or any petition for
relief under the provisions of the federal bankruptcy act or any
other state or federal law for the relief of debtors and the
continuation of such petition without dismissal for a period of
fifteen (15) days or more, or the appointment of a receiver or
trustee to take possession of the property or assets of Makers,
the entire unpaid balance of this Note shall become immediately
due and payable.

              C.  In the event the property described in Section
1 of this Note, or any interest therein, is sold, agreed to be
sold, conveyed or alienated by Makers, or by operation of law or
otherwise, the entire unpaid balance of this Note shall become
immediately due and payable at the option of the holder of this
Note.

              D.  If default occurs in the payment of any
installment under this Note when due, or in the event of
violation or breach of any of the terms or conditions in the
Second Deed of Trust securing this Note (attached hereto as
Exhibit A), the entire unpaid balance of this Note shall become
immediately due and payable at the option of the holder of this
Note.  Failure to exercise such option will not constitute a
waiver of the right to exercise such option with respect to any
subsequent default.

    6.  Collection.  If action is instituted to collect this
Note, Maker promises to pay, and shall be personally liable for
all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees,
incurred in connection with such action.

    7.  Waiver.  Maker hereby waives notice of default,
presentment or demand of payment, protest or notice of nonpayment
or dishonor and all other notices or demands relative to this
Note.

    8.  Usuary.  All agreements, including this Note, between
Makers and the holder hereof are expressly limited so that under
no contingency or event whatsoever shall the amount paid or
agreed to be paid to Amdahl for the use, forbearance or detention
of the money advanced exceed the lawful highest rate permissible
under the prevailing law.  If fulfillment of any provision of
this Note or any other agreement pertaining hereto at the time
performance of such provisions be due, shall involve transcending
the limit of validity prescribed by statute or which a court of
competent jurisdiction may deem applicable hereto, ipso facto,
the obligation to be fulfilled shall be reduced to the limit of
such validity, and if for any circumstances Amdahl or the holder
hereof shall ever receive as interest an amount which would
exceed the highest lawful rate, such amount which would otherwise
be excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the
unpaid principal balance due under the Note and not to the
payment of interest.  This provision shall control every other
charge for the use, forbearance or detention of money advanced or
to be advanced hereunder.

    9.  Governing Law.  This Note shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of California.

MAKERS:


/s/Bruce J. Ryan                            /s/Kathleen M. Ryan
----------------                            -------------------
BRUCE J. RYAN                               KATHLEEN M. RYAN
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     SHORT FORM DEED OF TRUST AND ASSIGNMENT OF RENTS


This Deed of Trust, made this 27th day of September, 1994,
between Bruce J. Ryan and Kathleen M. Ryan husband and wife
herein called TRUSTOR, whose address is 24580 Clearview Drive,
Los Gatos, CA 95030 STEWART TITLE of CALIFORNIA a California
corporation, herein called TRUSTEE, and Amdahl Corporation,
herein called BENEFICIARY,

Witnesseth: That Trustor IRREVOCABLY GRANTS, TRANSFERS AND
ASSIGNS TO TRUSTEE IN TRUST WITH POWER OF SALE, that property in
SANTA CLARA County, California described as:

SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF
In the event the herein described property or any part thereof,
or any interest therein is sold, agreed to be sold, conveyed or
alienated by the Trustor, or by the operation of Law or otherwise
all obligations secured by this instrument, irrespective of the
maturity dates expressed therein, at the option of the holder
hereof and without demand or notice shall immediately become due
and payable.

This deed of trust is second and subordinate to that certain deed
of trust recorded concurrently herewith, executed by:
Bruce J. Ryan and Kathleen M. Ryan, as trustor(s) in favor of
Wells Fargo Bank, as beneficiary(ies), in the amount of
$550,000.00.

TOGETHER WITH the rents, issues and profits thereof, SUBJECT,
HOWEVER, to the right, power and authority given to and conferred
upon Beneficiary by paragraph 10 of the provisions incorporated
herein by reference to collect and apply such rents, issued and
profits.  For the Purpose of Securing: 1. Performance of each
agreement of Trustor incorporated by reference or contained
herein.  2. Payment of the indebtedness evidenced by one
promissory note of even date herewith and any extension or
renewal thereof, in the principal sum of $300,000.00 executed by
Trustor in favor of Beneficiary or order.  3. Payment of such
further sums as the then record owner of said property hereafter
may borrow from Beneficiary, when evidenced by another note (or
notes) reciting it is so secured.  To Protect the Security of
This Deed of Trust, Trustor Agrees: By the execution and delivery
of this Deed of Trust, and the note secured hereby, that
provisions (1) to (14), inclusive, of the fictitious deed of
trust recorded under date, in the book and at the page of
Official Records in the office of the county recorder of the
county where said property is located, noted below opposite the
name of such county, viz:
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COUNTY                  REEL      IMAGE
                        OR BOOK   OR PAGE
Alameda........         2210      970
San Joaquin....         3221      325
Santa Clara....         8178      33
Sacramento.....         68-07-03  250

COUNTY                  REEL      IMAGE
                        OR BOOK   OR PAGE
San Francisco..         B-254     678
San Mateo......         5497      162
Napa...........         789       977
Solano.........         1515      107

COUNTY                  REEL      IMAGE
                        OR BOOK   OR PAGE
Santa Cruz.....         1890      217
Monterey.......         563       919
Stanislaus.....         2227      312

COUNTY                  REEL      IMAGE
                        OR BOOK   OR PAGE
Marin.........          2223      30
Sonoma........          2339      251
Contra Costa..          5660      126

(which provisions, identical in all counties, are printed on the
reverse hereof) hereby are adopted and incorporated herein and
made a part hereof as fully as though set forth herein at length;
that he will observe and perform said provisions; and that the
references to property, obligations, and parties in said
provisions shall be construed to refer to the property,
obligations, and parties set forth in this Deed of Trust.  The
undersigned trustor requests that a copy of any Notice of Default
and of any Notice of Sale hereunder be mailed to him at his
address hereinbefore set forth.  For any statement regarding the
obligations secured hereby, Beneficiary may charge the maximum
amount permitted by law at the time of the request therefor.



                                  /s/ Bruce J. Ryan
                                  -----------------
                                  BRUCE J. RYAN


STATE OF CALIFORNIA     )
COUNTY OF Santa Clara   )ss.
                        )         /s/ Kathleen M. Ryan
                                  By Bruce J. Ryan
                                  (attorney in fact)
                                  -------------------
                                  KATHLEEN M. RYAN


On September 27, 1994 before me, Donna J. Dickinson
personally appeared Bruce J. Ryan personally known
to me (or proved to me on the basis of 
satisfactory evidence)to be the person(s)
whose name(s)is/are subscribed to the within
instrument and acknowledged to me that
he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their
authorized capacity(ies) and that by his/her/their
signature(s) on the instrument the person(s)
or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s)
acted, executed the instrument.


Signature     /s/ Donna J. Dickinson        (notary seal
              ----------------------        affixed here) 
              DONNA J. DICKINSON
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    To Protect the Security of This Deed of Trust, Trustor
Agrees:

    (1) To keep said property in good condition and repair; not
to remove or demolish any building thereon: to complete or
restore promptly and in good workmanlike manner any building
which may be constructed, damaged or destroyed thereon and to pay
when due all claims for labor performed and materials furnished
therefor; to comply with all laws affecting said property or
requiring any alterations or improvements to be made thereon; not
to commit or permit waste thereof; not to commit, suffer or
permit any act upon said property in violation of law: to
cultivate, irrigate, fertilize, fumigate, prune and do all other
acts which from the character or use of said property may be
reasonably necessary, the specific enumerations herein not
excluding the general.

    (2) To provide, maintain and deliver to Beneficiary fire
insurance satisfactory to and with loss payable to Beneficiary. 
The amount collected under any fire or other insurance policy may
be applied by Beneficiary upon any indebtedness secured hereby
and in such order as Beneficiary may determine, or at option of
Beneficiary the entire amount so collected or any part thereof
may be released to Trustor.  Such application or release shall
not cure or waive any default or notice of default or notice of
default hereunder or invalidate any act done pursuant to such
notice.

    (3) To appear in and defend any action or proceeding
purporting to affect the security hereof or the rights or powers
of Beneficiary or Trustee: and to pay all costs and expenses,
including cost of evidence of title and attorney's fees in a
reasonable sum in any such action or proceeding in which
Beneficiary or Trustee may appear, and in any suit brought by
Beneficiary to foreclose this Deed.

    (4) To pay: at least ten days before delinquency all taxes
and assessments affecting said property, including assessments on
appurtenant water stock; when due, all incumbrance, charges and
liens, with interest, on said property or any part thereof, which
appear to be prior or superior hereto: all costs, fees and
expenses of this Trust.

    Should Trustor fail to make any payment or to do any act as
herein provided, then Beneficiary or Trustee, but without
obligation so to do and without notice to or demand upon Trustor
and without releasing Trustor from any obligation hereof, may:
make or do the same in such manner and to such extent as either
may deem necessary to protect the security hereof, Beneficiary or
Trustee being authorized to enter upon said property for such
purposes; appear in and defend any action or proceeding
purporting to affect the security hereof or the rights or powers
of Beneficiary or Trustee; pay, purchase, contest or compromise
any incumbrance, charge or lien which in the judgment of either
appears to be prior or superior hereto; and, in exercising any
such powers, pay necessary expenses, employ counsel and pay his
reasonable fees.

    (5)  To pay immediately and without demand all sums so
expended by Beneficiary or Trustee, with interest from date of
expenditure at the amount allowed by law in effect at the date
hereof, and to pay for any statement provided for by law in
effect at the date hereof regarding the obligation secured hereby
any amount demanded by the Beneficiary not to exceed the maximum
allowed by law at the time when said statement is demanded.

    (6) That any award of damages in connection with any
condemnation for public use of or injury to said property or any
part thereof is hereby assigned and shall be paid to Beneficiary
who may apply or release such moneys received by him in the same
manner and with the same effect as above provided for disposition
of proceeds of fire or other insurance.

    (7) That by accepting payment of any sum secured hereby
after its due date, Beneficiary does not waive his right either
to require prompt payment when due of all other sums so secured
or to declare default for failure so to pay.

    (8) That at any time or from time to time, without liability
therefor and without notice, upon written request of Beneficiary
and presentation of this Deed and said note for endorsement, and
without affecting the personal liability of any person for
payment of the indebtedness secured hereby.  Trustee may:
reconvey any part of said property; consent to the making of any
map or plat thereof; join in granting any easements thereon: or
join in any extension agreement or any agreement subordinating
the lien or charge hereof.

    (9) That upon written request of Beneficiary stating that
all sums secured hereby have been paid, and upon surrender of
this Deed and said note to Trustee for cancellation and retention
and upon payment of its fees, Trustee shall reconvey, without
warranty, the property then held hereunder.  The recitals in such
reconveyance of any matter or facts shall be conclusive proof of
the truthfulness thereof.  The grantee in such reconveyance may
be described as "the person or person legally entitled there." 
Five years after issuance of such full reconveyance, Trustee may
destroy said note and this Deed (unless directed in such request
to retain them).

    (10) That as additional security, Trustor hereby gives to
and confers upon Beneficiary the right, power and authority,
during the continuance of these Trusts, to collect the rents,
issues and profits of said property, reserving unto Trustor the
right, prior to any default by Trustor in payment of any
indebtedness secured hereby or in may at any time without notice,
either in person, by agent, or by a receiver to be appointed by a
court, and without regard to the adequacy of any security for the
indebtedness hereby secured, enter upon and take possession of
said property or any part thereof, in his own name sue for or
otherwise collect such rents, issues and profits including those
past due and unpaid, and apply the same, less costs and expenses
of operation and collection, including reasonable attorney's
fees, upon any indebtedness secured hereby, and in such order as
Beneficiary may determine.  The entering upon and taking
possession of said property, the collection of such rents, issues
and profits and the application thereof as aforesaid, shall not
cure or waive any default hereunder or invalidate any act done
pursuant to such notice.

    (11) That upon default by Trustor in payment of any
indebtedness secured hereby or in performance of any agreement
hereunder, Beneficiary may declare all sums secured hereby
immediately due and payable by delivery to Trustee a written
declaration of default and demand for sale and a written notice
of default and election to cause to be sole said property, which
notice Trustee shall cause to be filed for record.  Beneficiary
also shall deposit with Trustee this Deed, said note and all
documents evidencing expenditures secured hereby.

    After the lapse of such time as may then be required by law
following the recordation of said notice of default and notice of
sale having been given as then required by law, Trustee, without
demand on Trustor, shall sell said property at the time and place
fixed by it in said notice of sale, either as a whole or in
separate parcels, and in such order as it may determine at public
announcement at the time fixed by the preceding postponement. 
Trustee shall deliver to such purchaser its deed conveying the
property so sold, but without any covenant or warranty, express
or implied.  The recitals in such deed of any matters or facts
shall be conclusive proof of the truthfulness thereof, any
person, including Trustor, Trustee, or Beneficiary as hereinafter
defined, may purchase at such sale.

    After deducting all costs, fees and expenses of Trustee and
of this Trust, including cost of evidence of title in connection
with sale, Trustee shall apply the proceeds of sale to payment of
all sums expended under the terms hereof, not then repaid, with
accrued interest at the amount allowed by law in effect at the
hereof all other sums then secured hereby; and the remainder, if
any, to the person or persons entitled thereto.

    (12) Beneficiary, or any successor in ownership of any
indebtedness secured hereby, may from time to time, by instrument
in writing substitute a successor or successors to any Trustee
named herein or acting hereunder, which instrument, executed by
the beneficiary and duly acknowledged and recorded in the office
of the recorder of the county or counties where said property is
situated, shall be conclusive proof of proper substitution of
such successor Trustee or Trustees, who shall, without conveyance
from the Trustee predecessor, succeed to all its title, estate,
rights, powers and duties.  Said instrument must contain the name
of the original Trustor, Trustee and Beneficiary hereunder, the
book and page where this Deed is recorded and the name and
address of the new Trustee.

    (13) That this Deed applies to, inures to the benefit of,
and binds all parties hereto, their heirs, legatees, devises,
administrators, executors, successors and assigns.  The term
Beneficiary shall mean the owner and holder, including pledgees,
of the note secured hereby, whether or not named as Beneficiary
herein.  In this Deed, whenever the context so requires, the
masculine gender includes the feminine and or neuter, and the
singular number includes the plural.

    (14) That Trustee accepts this Trust when this Deed, duly
executed and acknowledged, is made a public record as provided by
law, Trustee is not obligated to notify any party hereto of
pending sale under any other Deed of Trust or of any action or
proceeding in which Trustor, Beneficiary or Trustee shall be a
party unless brought by Trustee.


                  REQUEST FOR FULL RECONVEYANCE
             To be used only when note has been paid.

To STEWART TITLE OF CALIFORNIA, Trustee:              Date:

    The undersigned is the legal owner and holder of all
indebtedness secured by the within Deed of Trust.  All sums
secured by said Deed of Trust have been fully paid and satisfied;
and you are hereby requested and directed, on payment to you of
any sums owing to you under the terms of said Deed of Trust, to
cancel all evidence of indebtedness, secured by said Deed of
Trust, delivered to you herewith together with said Deed of
Trust, and to reconvey, without warranty, to the parties
designated by the terms of said Deed of Trust, the estate now
held by you under the same.

MAIL RECONVEYANCE TO:




      Do not lose or destroy this Deed of Trust OR THE NOTE
         which it secures.  Both must be delivered to the
   Trustee for cancellation before reconveyances will be made.
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                           EXHIBIT "A"

                        LEGAL DESCRIPTION

ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NUMBER: 409-29-020

LOT TWENTY ONE (21), as shown on that certain Map entitled,
"Tract 632 La Rinconada Knolls", which said Map was filed for
record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa
Clara, State of California on August 27, 1951 in Book 34 of Maps,
at page 21.