Well I did manage to watch the old VHS tapes I have of the 1990 SETI conference (I think May) at the Ontario Science Center and I did listen to one presentation about a low mass companion to HD 114762 so I guess your right on that one Phil. I couldn’t get the presenters name.

The video was terrible and the audio worse but I did get to watch Phil Morrison and Carl Sagan as well. It was strange to hear Sagan say that he thought that Brown Dwarf’s should be considered planets. I had not thought about it that way – I always considered Brown Dwarf’s as failed (because of their low mass) stars but he was adamant about it.
Some of the other presentation were from people that I am now familiar with but at the time were strangers. I watched Robert Gray describe his analysis of ‘Gray Data’ from his amateur SETI station and Bob Stephens tell about his SETI station on the Hay River, Northwest Territories - Interesting stuff.

I never did find a recording of the presentation of Speckle Interferometery for planet detection but I’m sure there was a presentation. The battery on my recorder gave out on the second day.

The other thing that struck me was the presentations themselves. They were all simply overhead projections of mostly hand scrawled drawings, not much better than doodles. That conference proceeded Power Point by a few years and *didn’t* make me long for the old ways. They were bad tools for communication.