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After many years (decades ?) away from it I am at present back to electronic circuit design. The memories keep flooding back:

1) The problem
2) A potential solution
3) Failure of that potential solution prior to any detail design
4) Repeat 2) and 3) until
5) A potential solution worthy of detailed design is found
6) In course of design it emerges that the potential solution will not work
7) Repeat 5) and 6) until potential solution reaches stage of a rough circuit design
8) Search for components to implement this first design.

That is as far as I have got this week. Electronic components do not seem to have made great strides since I last designed with them. In the 60's and 70's to be away from the game for 6 months meant that you were out of touch. Relatively, not much seems to have happened in the last decade or two.