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<LEGEND>
     This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
June 30, 1997 financial statements and is qualified in its entirety by reference
to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>             Advanced Machine Vision Corporation
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<FN>
<F1>
     On May 6,  1997,  AMV  sold  Pulsarr  for $8.4  million  in cash, resulting
     in  a  gain of $4,989,000. This gain primarily represents a recovery of the
     $4,915,000  charge  for  acquired  in-process  technology  expensed  in the
     quarter ended March 31, 1996.
</FN>
        

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