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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.5

Name:              Objective Systems Integrators, Inc.
Address:           100 Blue Ravine Road
City, State, Zip:  Folsom,  CA  95630
Attn:              Thea Palmiere

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                                 DEED OF TRUST
                                        
Grantor(s):  James K.R. Souders
Grantee(s):  Transnation Title Insurance Company
Legal Description (abbreviated):  Lot 39, Sammamish 95

THIS DEED OF TRUST, made this 14th day of April 1998 between James K.R. Souders,
GRANTOR, whose address is 100 Blue Ravine Road,  Folsom,  CA  95630,
TRANSNATION TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, TRUSTEE, whose address is
1200 Sixth Avenue,  Seattle,  Washington, and OBJECTIVE SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS,
BENEFICIARY, whose address is 100 Blue Ravine Road,  Folsom,  CA  95630,
WITNESSETH:  Grantor hereby bargains, sells and conveys to Trustee in Trust,
with power of sale, the following described real property in King County,
Washington:

    Lot 39 of Sammamish 95, as per plat recorded in volume 141 of plats, pages
    21 through 25, Records of King County

which real property is not used principally for agricultural or farming
purposes, together with all the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances now
or hereafter thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the rents,
issues and profits thereof.

This deed is for the purpose of securing performance of each agreement of
grantor herein contained, and payment of the sum of--Four Hundred Thousand--
Dollars ($400,000.00) with interest, in accordance with the terms of a
promissory note of even date herewith, payable to Beneficiary or order, and made
by Grantor, and all renewals, modifications and extensions thereof, and also
such further sums as may be advanced or loaned by Beneficiary to Grantor, or any
of their successors or assigns, together with interest thereon at such rate as
shall be agreed upon.

To protect the security of this Deed of Trust, Grantor convenants and agrees:

1.  To keep the property in good condition and repair; to permit no waste
thereof; to complete any building, structure or improvement being built or about
to be thereon; to restore promptly any building , structure or improvement
thereon which may be damaged or destroyed; and to comply with all laws,
ordinances, regulations, covenants, conditions and restrictions affecting the
property.
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2.  To pay before delinquent all lawful taxes and assessments upon the property;
to keep the property free and clear of all other charges, liens or encumbrances
impairing the security of this Deed of Trust.

3.  To keep all buildings now or hereafter erected on the property on the
property described herein continuously insured against loss by fire or other
hazards in an amount not less than the total debt secured by this Deed of Trust.
All policies shall be held by the Beneficiary, and be in such companies as the
Beneficiary may approve and have loss payable first to the Beneficiary, as its
interest may appear, and then the Grantor.  The amount collected under any
insurance policy may be applied upon any indebtedness hereby secured in such
order as the Beneficiary shall determine.  Such application by the Beneficiary
shall not cause discontinuance of any proceedings to foreclose this Deed of
Trust.  In the event of foreclosure, all rights of the Grantor in insurance
policies then in force shall pass to the purchaser at the foreclosure sale.

4.  To 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 title search and attorneyOs fees in a reasonable
amount, in any such action or proceeding, and in any suit brought by Beneficiary
to foreclose this Deed of Trust.

5.  To pay all costs, fees and expenses in connection with this Deed of Trust,
including the expenses of the Trustee incurred in enforcing the obligation
secured hereby and TrusteeOs and attorneyOs fees actually incurred as provided
by statute.

6.  Should Grantor fail to pay when due any taxes, assessments, insurance
premiums, liens, encumbrances or other charges against the property hereinabove
described, Beneficiary may pay the same, and the amount so paid with interest at
the rate set forth in the note secured hereby, shall be added to and become a
part of the debt secured in this Deed of Trust.

IT IS MUTUALLY AGREED THAT

1.  In the event any portion of the property is taken or damaged in an eminent
domain proceeding, the entire amount of the award or such portion, as may be
necessary to fully satisfy the obligation secured hereby, shall be paid to
Beneficiary to be applied to said obligation.

2.  By accepting payment of any sum secured hereby, after its due date,
Beneficiary does not waive its right to require prompt payment when due of all
other sums so secured or to declare for failure to so pay.

3.  The Trustee shall reconvey all or any part of the property covered by this
Deed of Trust to the person entitled thereto, on written request of the Grantor
and the Beneficiary, or upon satisfaction of the obligation secured and written
request for reconveyance made by the Beneficiary or the person entitled thereto.
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4.  Upon default by Grantor in the payment of any indebtedness secured hereby or
in the performance of any agreement contained herein, all sums secured hereby
shall immediately become due and payable at the option of the Beneficiary. In
such event and upon written request of Beneficiary, Trustee shall sell the trust
property, in accordance with the Deed of Trust Act of the State of Washington,
at public auction to the highest bidder. Any person except Trustee may bid at
the TrusteeOs sale. Trustee shall apply the proceeds of the sales as follows:
(1) to the expense of the sale, including a reasonable TrusteeOs fees and
attorneyOs fee; (2) to the obligation secured by this Deed of Trust; (3) the
surplus, if any, shall be distributed to the persons entitled thereto.

5.  Trustee shall deliver to the purchaser at the sale its deed, without
warranty, which shall convey to the purchaser the interest in the property which
Grantor had or had the power to convey at the time of his execution of this Deed
of Trust, and such as he may have acquired thereafter.  TrusteeOs deed shall
recite the facts showing that the sale was conducted in compliance with all
requirements of law and of this Deed of Trust, which recital shall be prima
facie evidence of such compliance and conclusive evidence thereof in favor of
bona fide purchaser and encumbrancers for value.

6.  The power of sale conferred by this Deed of Trust and by the Deed of Trust
Act of the State of Washington is not an exclusive remedy;  Beneficiary may
cause this Deed of Trust to be foreclosed as a mortgage.

7.  In the event of the death, incapacity, disability or resignation of Trustee,
Beneficiary may appoint in writing a successor trustee, and upon the recording
of such appointment in the mortgage records of the county in which this Deed of
Trust is recorded, the successor trustee shall be vested with all powers of the
original trustee.  The 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 Grantor, Trustee or Beneficiary shall be a party unless such action or
proceeding is brought by the Trustee.

8.  This Deed of Trust applies to, inures to the behalf of, and is binding not
only on the parties hereto, but on their heirs, devisees, legatees,
administrators, executors and assigns.  The term Beneficiary shall mean the
holder and owner of the note secured hereby, whether or not named as Beneficiary
herein.

                                    /s/  James K.R. Souders
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                                    James K.R. Souders
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                         REQUEST FOR FULL RECONVEYANCE
           Do not record.  To be used only when note has been paid.


TO TRUSTEE


     The undersigned is the legal owner and holder of the note and all other
indebtedness secured by the within Deed of Trust.  Said note, note, together
with all other indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, has 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 said note
above mentioned, and all other evidences of indebtedness secured by said Deed of
Trust delivered to you herewith, together with the said Deed of Trust, and
reconvey, without warranty, to the parties designated by the terms of said Deed
of Trust, all the estate now held by you thereunder.

Dated _______________________ , 19 _______

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Mail reconveyance to ___________________________________________________________