<>@3{ARISE, SIR MICRO-CHIP! @1 Clive Marles Sinclair has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. He said of the news: "It was completely unexpected and a wonderful surprise - more than ever I find myself committed to achieving success here in, and for, Britain." At 42, he is the founder of a company which has become the world's largest volume manufacturer of personal computers, and is largely responsible - with the ZX80, ZX81 and most recently the Spectrum - for making the micro-computer a household item in the UK. After leaving school at 17, he worked for four years as a technical journalist before founding Sinclair Radionics in 1962. This company produced the Executive pocket calculator at the then revolutionary price of £79. In the late 1970s, he joined forces with the National Enterprise Board to produce the first pocket TV, the Microvision. And, in 1979, he established his present company, Sinclair Research. In January this year a share placement valued the company at £135.9m, with Sinclair's personal holding being worth £129.1m. Clive is now concentrating on the new flat-screen TV project, other research investigations - an electric car and a personal robot - and a joint publishing venture, Sinclair Browne. He is the current chairman of Mensa and his interests include running, poetry and opera. @4Taken from: Popular Computing Weekly Volume 2 Number 24 16-22 June 1983 [7