Possible Clues:

• What the US did in 1980, in charge of some modern technology
• One mobile Scalextric set out — dispatch to these stores?
• Choose fancy iron, finally metric, using computer control
• Notice clerk endlessly shifting class of mail
• Using microchips, transistors, etc
• Chosen man in charge of modern type of technology
• Chipped, say
• Give a seat to man in charge of a type of music
• Controlled by semiconductors
• Digital TV one cleric ordered, but no volume