Which weighs more, the III or the monitor? )

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The monitor weighs more.

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I'm not at all surprised, the LCIII and the MicroQuadras are all lightweights, but the Microquadras are built to support heavier Monitors. My LC475 and Q605 were always happiest with my Apple Portrait Display sittin' on top.

. . . (well, more because I am curious about this), I would like to show you all something interesting I found inside the LC III. The LC III logic board has a few green wires connecting the chips U32, U22, and U7. I don't know what any of those chips are or how I could look them up (aside from just searching for numbers printed on them, which didn't get me anywhere). The wires were laid nicely and held in place with tiny beads of hot glue. The soldering quality isn't all that great though.
So, from this green wire find, I have two questions. First, do we have a good logic board reference we can use to find out what different parts are? Something like a BOM for various Macintosh models would be nice. And finally, what do you think those green wires are doing?

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Check the Developer Notes for each machine, they all have a rough logic diagram, listing the interconnections between the various ASICS, the CPU, what is connected to the Fast and Slow System buses and how.

Judging from the paths, lengths and the hot glue holding down the green wires. I'd say they were standard rework wiring for bad traces on that board in particular, or to fix an incorrect PCB layout.

I'd examine that board VERY closely for any verbiage, dates and revision#s you can find. With that much rework, you may have, either a very early production board or maybe even a prototype MoBo on your hands. [] ]'>

BTW, I LOVE your avatar, what's the resistance value? )