The Sanderson Electronics Plc shares are so tarred with the brush of Unlisted Securities Market computer stock that they consistently prove the old investing adage that when times are tough, the good go down with the bad – and as far as small computer companies are concerned, times have been perceived as bad for three or four years now. To lift its shares out of the morass of its bombed-out siblings, the thrusting, ambitious and so far very successful – Sheffield Pick-popper has decided to chance its arm with the big boys and plans this month to apply to the Council of the International Stock Exchange to graduate to the Official List.