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EXHIBIT 10.69

                                                        Private Client Group

                                                        Merrill Lynch Business
                                                        Financial Services Inc.
[GRAPHIC OMITTED]                                       222 North LaSalle Street
                                                        17th Floor
                                                        Chicago, Illinois 60601
                                                        (312) 269-4476
                                                        FAX: (312) 499-3253

                                                        March 2, 2001

Exactech, Inc.
2320 N.W. 66th Court
Gainesville, FL 32653

                  Re: WCMA Line of Credit Increase

Ladies & Gentlemen:

This Letter Agreement will serve to confirm certain agreements of Merrill Lynch
Business Financial Services Inc. ("MLBFS") and Exactech, Inc. ("Customer") with
respect to: (i) that certain WCMA AND TERM LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT No.
9504550701 between MLBFS and Customer (including any previous amendments and
extensions thereof), and (ii) all other agreements between MLBFS and Customer in
connection therewith (collectively, the "Loan Documents"). Capitalized terms
used herein and not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Loan
Documents.

Subject to the terms hereof, effective as of the "Effective Date" (as defined
below), the Loan Documents are hereby amended as follows:

(a) The term "Maximum WCMA Line of Credit" shall mean an amount equal to the
lesser of: (A) 80% of Customer's domestic Accounts and Chattel Paper, as shown
on its regular books and records (excluding Accounts over 90 days old, Chattel
Paper with installments or other sums more than 90 days past due, and Accounts
and Chattel Paper directly or indirectly due from any person or entity not
domiciled in the continental United States, Alaska or Hawaii, or from any
shareholder, officer or employee of Customer or any affiliated entity) plus 50%
of Customer's Inventory, as shown on its regular books and records, or (B)
$12,000,000.00.

(b) The annual "Line Fee" is hereby increased to $40,000.00. In connection with
the increase in the Maximum WCMA Line of Credit pursuant hereto, a portion of
such new Line Fee in the amount of $5,000.00 (the "Increase Fee") is now due and
owing. Customer hereby authorizes and directs MLBFS to charge the Increase Fee
to WCMA Account No. 750-07R53 on or at any time after the Effective Date. Once
charged, the Increase Fee is non-refundable.

(c) The term "Interest Rate" shall mean a variable per annum rate of interest
equal to the sum of 2.10% and the 30-Day Dealer Commercial Paper Rate. The
"30-Day Dealer Commercial Paper Rate" shall mean, as of the date of any
determination, the interest rate from time to time published in the "Money
Rates" section of The Wall Street Journal for 30-day high-grade unsecured notes
sold through dealers by major corporations. The Interest Rate will change as of
the date of publication in The Wall Street Journal of a 30-Day Dealer Commercial
Paper Rate that is different from that published on the preceding Business Day.
In the event that The Wall Street Journal shall,

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for any reason, fail or cease to publish the 30-Day Dealer Commercial Paper
Rate, MLBFS will choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the
basis for the Interest Rate.

(d) Customer's "tangible net worth" shall at all times exceed $25,000,000.00.
For the purposes hereof, the term "tangible net worth" shall mean Customer's net
worth as shown on Customer's regular financial statements prepared in a manner
consistent with the terms hereof, but excluding an amount equal to (i) any
assets which are ordinarily classified as "intangible" in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and (ii) any amounts now or hereafter
directly or indirectly owing to Customer by officers, shareholders or affiliates
of Customer.

(e) Except upon the prior written consent of MLBFS, Customer shall not directly
or indirectly hereafter incur or permit to exist any debt of Customer for
borrowed money or the lease under a capital lease or deferred purchase price of
real or personal property other than: (i) debt to MLBFS, (ii) debt existing as
of the date of and reflected on the last financial statements of Customer
submitted to MLBFS prior to the date hereof and not refinanced by MLBFS, (iii)
debt secured by Permitted Liens, and (iv) up to $200,000.00 in the aggregate of
other debt in any fiscal year of Customer ending after the date hereof.

(f) Except upon the prior written consent of MLBFS, Customer shall not directly
or indirectly lend any moneys to, or guaranty the debt of, any person or entity.

(g) Customer shall at all times during the term hereof maintain a Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio of not less than 1.5 to 1. The term "Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio"
shall mean the ratio of: (a) income before interest (including payments in the
nature of interest under capital leases), taxes, depreciation and amortization,
less internally financed capital expenditures, to (b) the sum the aggregate
principal and interest paid or accrued, the aggregate rental under capital
leases paid or accrued, any dividends and other distributions paid or payable to
shareholders and taxes paid in cash; all as determined on a trailing 12-month
basis from the regular consolidated financial statements of Customer prepared in
a manner consistent with the terms hereof.

(h) Without limiting any other provision hereof, Customer shall not without the
prior written consent of MLBFS directly or indirectly acquire the assets or
stock of any other entity.

(i) Except upon the prior written consent of MLBFS, Customer shall not in any
fiscal year directly or indirectly pay any dividends or make any other
distributions on account of its stock to its shareholders in an aggregate amount
exceeding the net after-tax profits of Customer for said fiscal year.

(j) Except upon the prior written consent of MLBFS, Customer shall not directly
or indirectly initiate, create or acquire any additional or new product lines,
services, business ventures, companies or divisions.

(k) Except upon the prior written consent of MLBFS, Customer shall not in any
fiscal year directly or indirectly pay any dividends or make any other
distributions on account of its stock to its shareholders in an aggregate amount
exceeding the net after-tax profits of Customer for said fiscal year.

(l) Customer shall at all times cause each of the Customer's locations
associated with Customer to be managed on a day-to day basis by William Petty,
MD, Timoth J. Sees and/or Gary J. Miller, Ph.D.

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(m) Customer's income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization,
shall at all times be not less than $6,800,000.00 as measured quarterly and
determined on a trailing 12-month basis from the regular consolidated financial
statements of Customer prepared in a manner consistent with the terms hereof.

(n) In addition to existing requirements, Customer shall provide to MLBFS:

    Within 15 days after the close of each fiscal month of Customer, a copy of
    the Accounts Receivable Aging of Customer as of the end of such fiscal
    month;

    Within 15 days after the close of each fiscal month of Customer, a copy of
    the Inventory Report (as and to the extent applicable, breaking out
    Inventory by location, and separately reporting any work in process) of
    Customer as of the end of such fiscal month; and

    Customer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to MLBFS not later than 10
    days after the date of filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
    ("SEC"), a copy of each 10-Q and other report required to be filed with the
    SEC during the term hereof by Customer.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Loan Documents shall continue in full
force and effect upon all of their terms and conditions.

Customer acknowledges, warrants and agrees, as a primary inducement to MLBFS to
enter into this Agreement, that: (a) no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing under the Loan Documents; (b) each of the warranties of
Customer in the Loan Documents are true and correct as of the date hereof and
shall be deemed remade as of the date hereof; (c) Customer does not have any
claim against MLBFS or any of its affiliates arising out of or in connection
with the Loan Documents or any other matter whatsoever; and (d) Customer does
not have any defense to payment of any amounts owing, or any right of
counterclaim for any reason under, the Loan Documents.

The obligations of MLBFS under this Letter Agreement are subject to its receipt
(where applicable) and satisfaction with the following:

1.       A copy of Customer's current Accounts Receivable Agings Report;

2.       A copy of Customer's current Inventory Report;

3.       Two supplier reference;

4.       Two Customer references;

5.       A bank reference;

6.       A copy of Customer's two year financial projections and assumptions;
         and

7.       A visit by a MLBFS representative.

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Provided that no Event of Default, or event which with the giving of notice,
passage of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall then have
occurred and be continuing under the terms of the Loan Documents, the amendments
and agreements in this Letter Agreement will become effective on the date (the
"Effective Date") upon which: (a) Customer shall have executed and returned the
duplicate copy of this Letter Agreement enclosed herewith; and (b) an officer of
MLBFS shall have reviewed and approved this Letter Agreement as being consistent
in all respects with the original internal authorization hereof.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Customer does not execute and return the
duplicate copy of this Letter Agreement within 14 days from the date hereof, or
if for any other reason (other than the sole fault of MLBFS) the Effective Date
shall not occur within said 14-day period, then all of said amendments and
agreements will, at the sole option of MLBFS, be void.

Very truly yours,

Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services Inc.

By: /s/ Steven P. Terborg
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    Steven P. Terborg
    Senior Relationship Manager

Accepted:

Exactech, Inc.

By: /s/ Joel C. Phillips
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    Joel C. Phillips
    Chief Financial OfficerEXHIBIT 10.1

                                 PROMISSORY NOTE

$9,000,000.00                                                     Miami, Florida
                                                                  March 19, 2001

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned POST, BUCKLEY, SCHUH & JERNIGAN,
INC., a Florida corporation (the "Borrower"), promises to pay to the order of
SUNTRUST BANK, a Georgia banking corporation (the "Lender") at 777 Brickell
Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131, or at such other place as the holder of this Note
may designate in writing, the principal sum of NINE MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS
($9,000,000.00), in lawful money of the United States, with interest in like
lawful money commencing on the date funds are advanced hereunder at the
"Interest Rate" (as defined and provided hereinafter), computed as provided
herein.

         1. Definitions. As used in this Note, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings set forth below, and Borrower agrees to the terms,
covenants and conditions contained in the following definitions:

         "Business Day" means any calendar day other than a Saturday, a Sunday
or a day that banks are lawfully closed for business.

         "Floating Rate" means LIBOR plus the Floating Rate Margin.

         "Floating Rate Margin" means a margin of not less than 65 basis points
and not greater than 90 basis points to be determined in accordance with the
Performance Based Pricing Grid. Calculations under the Performance Based Pricing
Grid shall be made based on the four (4) fiscal quarters that precede the date
of each LIBOR change.

         "Interest Rate" means the Floating Rate.

         "LIBOR" means the rate of interest quoted in the Wall Street Journal,
Money Rates Section as the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR-thirty day),
with LIBOR in effect on the first day of a month being applicable to the entire
month (if the Wall Street Journal is not published on the first day of a month,
then the LIBOR rate in effect on the first day of that month shall be the LIBOR
rate last quoted in the Wall Street Journal during the preceding month). In the
event that the Wall Street Journal quotes more than one rate, or a range of
rates as LIBOR-thirty day, then LIBOR shall mean the average of the quoted
rates. In the event that the Wall Street Journal ceases to quote LIBOR-thirty
day rates, then LIBOR shall mean the offered rate for deposits in United States
dollars in the London Interbank market for a one-month period which appears on
the Libor Rate Reference Page as of 11:00 a.m. (London Time) on the applicable
day, as determined by Lender.

         "Loan" means the $9,000,000.00 loan evidenced by this Note.

         "Loan Documents" means this Note, the Mortgage, and all other
instruments or documents pertaining to the Loan executed from time to time in
favor of Lender by Borrower.

         "Maturity Date" means March 16, 2011.

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         "Mortgage" means that certain Mortgage, Security Agreement and
Assignment of Leases, Rents and Profits of even date herewith made by Borrower
in favor of Lender.

         "Performance Based Pricing Grid" means:

---------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
Funded Debt Ratio (as such term is
defined in the Mortgage)
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less than or equal to 2.5:1              sixty-five (65) basis points
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greater than 2.5:1                       ninety (90) basis points
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         2. Interest, Principal and Other Terms. Borrower shall pay interest on
the outstanding principal balance of the Loan at the Interest Rate.

         (a) Borrower shall pay monthly installments of principal in the amount
required to pay the entire outstanding principal amount of the Loan over a
period of twenty (20) years, plus interest at the Interest Rate, on the
sixteenth (16th) day of each month hereafter ensuing.

         (b) Notwithstanding the length of the amortization period used to
determine the monthly installments due under the Loan, the entire outstanding
principal balance of the Loan and any unpaid interest accrued on the Loan shall
be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date.

         (c) All interest payable under this Note shall always be computed on
the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in an assumed year of 360 days.
All payments on the Loan will be applied first to accrued interest and then to
principal, except that during the existence of an Event of Default (as defined
in the Mortgage), Lender may apply such payments against principal, interest,
charges, fees or other obligations of Borrower in any order of priority.

         (d) In the event that Lender has not delivered to Borrower a loan
statement or invoice showing the accrued interest then due at least three (3)
business days prior to such interest payment being due, then Borrower shall
immediately notify Lender and Lender shall promptly provide Borrower with a loan
statement or invoice showing the amount of accrued interest then due. In such
event, Borrower shall pay the accrued interest then due within three (3)
business days of Borrower's receipt of said loan statement or invoice.

         3. Prepayment. The Loan may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time
without penalty upon one (1) Business Day prior written notice to Lender. Unless
otherwise agreed to by Lender, prepayments of principal shall not change the due
date or amount of any other required payment hereunder.

         4. Acceleration. If any sums of money due under the terms of this Note
shall not be promptly and fully paid when due (including after maturity, whether
by acceleration or otherwise), or if any other Event of Default shall exist,
then at the option of the Lender the entire principal indebtedness evidenced
hereby, together with all unpaid interest accrued hereon and

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other sums due hereunder shall become due and payable immediately, without
presentation, demand or further action of any kind, and the Lender shall be
entitled to pursue any and all rights and remedies provided by applicable law
and/or under the terms of this Note or any other related document, including
without limitation the foreclosure of any security interest and realization
against any security for this Note, all of which rights and remedies shall be
cumulative and may be exercised successively or concurrently. The Lender's delay
in exercising or failure to exercise any rights or remedies to which the Lender
may be entitled in the event of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any
of its rights or remedies with respect to that or any subsequent default,
whether of the same or a different nature, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right or remedy by the Lender preclude any other or further
exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

         5. Default Rate. During the existence of any Event of Default and after
the maturity of this Note (whether by acceleration or otherwise), this Note
shall bear interest at a rate (the "Default Rate") equal to five percent (5%)
per annum over the interest rate announced by Lender from time to time as its
"Prime Rate", with any changes in the Prime Rate to be effective at the
beginning of the business day on which such change is announced, or the highest
rate permitted under the then applicable law, whichever is less. It is the
intention of the parties that in no event shall the default rate exceed the
highest rate permissible under then applicable law.

         6. Late Charge. Provided that the holder has not exercised its right to
accelerate the payment of this Note, as hereinabove provided, a late charge of
five percent (5%) of any payment required hereunder shall be imposed on each and
every payment not received by the holder within fifteen (15) days after it is
due. The late charge is not a penalty, but is liquidated damages to defray
administrative and related expenses due to such late payment. The late charge
shall be immediately due and payable and shall be paid by Borrower to the holder
without notice or demand; provided, however, under no circumstances shall any
such late charge be imposed which shall be in excess of the maximum lawful
interest rate.

         7. Waivers. The maker and any endorsers, sureties, guarantors and all
others who are, or may become liable for the payment of this Note severally: (a)
waive presentment for payment, demand, notice of demand, notice of non-payment,
or dishonor, protest and notice of protest of this Note, and all other notices
in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or enforcement
of the payment of this Note; (b) waive all applicable exemption rights, whether
under the State Constitution, homestead laws or otherwise, and also waive
valuation and appraisement; (c) consent to all extensions of time, renewals,
postponements of time of payment of this Note or other modifications hereof,
from time to time or after the maturity date hereof, whether by acceleration or
in due course, without notice, consent or consideration to any of the foregoing;
(d) agree to any substitution, exchange, addition or release of any of the
indebtedness evidenced by this Note, or the addition or release of any party or
person primarily or secondarily liable hereon; (e) agree that the holder shall
not be required first to institute any suit, or to exhaust its remedies against
the Borrower or any other person or party to become liable hereunder or against
the security in order to enforce the payment of this Note; and (f) agree that
notwithstanding the occurrence of any of the foregoing (except by the express
written release by the holder of any such person), the Borrower shall be and
remain jointly and severally directly and primarily liable for all sums due
under this Note.

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         8. Collection Costs. In addition to the payments of principal and
interest required to be paid under the terms of this Note, if any Event of
Default shall occur, the holder shall be entitled to recover from the Borrower
all of the holder's costs of collection, including the holder's reasonable
attorney's fees, whether for services incurred in collection, litigation,
bankruptcy proceedings, appeals or otherwise, and all other costs incurred in
the connection therewith.

         9. Actions or Proceedings. The Borrower and any endorsers, sureties,
guarantors, and all others who are or who may become liable for the payment
hereof, severally, irrevocably and unconditionally: (a) waive any right to trial
by jury in any legal action or proceeding to enforce their obligations
hereunder, waive any right to immunity from any such action or proceeding, and
waive any immunity or exemption of any property, wherever located, from
garnishment, levy, execution, seizure or attachment prior to or in execution of
judgment, or sale under execution or other process for the collection of debts;
(b) waive any right to interpose any set-off or non-compulsory counterclaim or
to plead laches or any statute of limitations as a defense in any such action or
proceeding, and waive (to the extent lawfully waivable) all provisions and
requirements of law for the benefit of Borrower or any of them now or hereafter
in force; (c) agree that any such enforcement action or proceeding may be
brought, at the option of the Lender, in either a court of record of the State
of Florida in Miami-Dade County or in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Florida; (d) consent to the jurisdiction of each such court
in any such suit, action or proceeding; (e) waive any objection which Borrower
or any of them may have to the laying of venue of such suit, action or
proceeding in any of such courts; and (f) stipulate that service of process in
any such action or proceeding shall be properly made if mailed by any form of
registered or certified mail (airmail if international), postage prepaid, to the
address then registered in the Lender's records for the person(s) so served, and
that any process so served shall be effective ten days after mailing. No
provision of this Note shall limit the Lender's right to serve legal process in
any other manner permitted by law or to bring any such action or proceeding in
any other competent jurisdiction.

         10. No Usury. In no event shall any agreed or actual exaction charged,
reserved or taken as an advance or forbearance by the Lender as consideration
for the indebtedness evidenced hereby exceed the limits (if any) imposed or
provided by the law applicable from time to time to such indebtedness for the
use or detention of money or for forbearance in seeking its collection; the
Lender hereby waives any right to demand such excess. In the event that the
interest provisions of this Note or any exactions provided for herein shall
result at any time or for any reason in an effective rate of interest that
transcends the maximum interest rate permitted by applicable law (if any), then
without further agreement or notice the obligation to be fulfilled shall be
automatically reduced to such limit and all sums received by the Lender in
excess of those lawfully collectible as interest shall be applied against the
principal of Borrower's obligations hereunder immediately upon their receipt
thereof, with the same force and effect as though the payor had specifically
designated such extra sums to be so applied to principal and the Lender had
agreed to accept such extra payment(s) as a premium-free prepayment or
prepayments. During any time that any indebtedness of Borrower bears interest at
the maximum lawful rate, interest shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days elapsed and the actual number of days in the respective calendar
year.

         11. Application of Payments. All payments made under this Note shall
first be applied to costs that may be due from the Borrower to the holder, as
aforesaid, and then shall be

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applied to interest due and owing and the remainder shall be applied to
principal due and owing under the terms hereof.

         12. Set-Off and Security Interest. As security for the payment of this
Note and any other indebtedness, liability or obligation arising in connection
herewith, Borrower hereby pledges and assigns to the Lender and grants the
Lender a security interest in, and a right to set off against, any and all
monies, accounts, balances, credits, deposits, collections, drafts, bills, notes
and other property of Borrower of every kind (whether tangible or intangible)
from time to time in the actual or constructive possession of (or in transit to)
Lender, in addition to and not in substitution for any other collateral or
security the Lender may have for this Note.

         13. Governing Law. This Note shall be construed, interpreted, enforced,
and governed by in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida (excluding
the principles thereof governing conflicts of law) and federal law in the event
federal law permits a higher rate of interest than Florida law.

         14. Partial Invalidity. Any provision of this Note which is prohibited
or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction only, be
ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or
enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction, and to this end the
provisions of this Note are declared to be severable.

         15. Security. This Note is secured by the Mortgage.

         16. Miscellaneous. All of the terms of this Note shall be binding upon
Borrower and Borrower's successors and assigns, jointly and severally. This Note
may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time without penalty. Time shall be of
the essence with respect to the terms of this Note. The term "Lender" shall
include the original lender and its successors and assigns. Whenever used in
this Note and unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular
include the plural, words in the plural include the singular, and pronouns of
any gender include the other genders. Captions and paragraph headings in this
Note are for convenience only and shall not affect its interpretation. This Note
cannot be changed orally, but only by a writing signed by the party against whom
enforcement of any change, modification, waiver or discharge is sought, nor
shall any waiver on one occasion apply to any future occasion, but only to the
specific occasion addressed in that signed writing.

         LENDER AND BORROWER HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY
WAIVE THE RIGHT EITHER OF THEM MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT TO ANY
LITIGATION BASED HEREON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
NOTE, AND ANY AGREEMENT CONTEMPLATED TO BE EXECUTED IN CONJUNCTION HEREWITH, OR
ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, STATEMENTS (WHETHER VERBAL OR WRITTEN)
OR ACTIONS OF EITHER PARTY. THIS PROVISION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR LENDER
EXTENDING CREDIT TO BORROWER. FURTHER, BORROWER HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT NO
REPRESENTATIVE OF LENDER, NOR THE LENDER'S

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COUNSEL, HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT LENDER WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF SUCH LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THIS WAIVER OF RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL
PROVISION.

                                          POST, BUCKLEY, SCHUH & JERNIGAN, INC.,
                                          a Florida corporation

                                          By: /s/ Richard A. Wickett
                                             -----------------------------------
                                          Name: Richard A. Wickett
                                               ---------------------------------
                                          Title: Senior Executive Vice President
                                                --------------------------------

                                          [CORPORATE SEAL]

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