Over the weekend, I was looking through my copy of Gregory Stobbs’ excellent book “Software Patents.” In Appendix A (at least in my old copy of the book) he has a copy of the proceedings from 1994 of the “Public Hearing on Use of the Patent System to Protect Software-Related Inventions.”
It is interesting to look back at the comments as well as the companies represented and the folks who made the comments. The transcripts of the proceedings are available [here] and [here].