So here's the fun part: It's not just parallel, it's parallel and (sorta-)keyboard!

See, it's gotta get power from somewhere, and the parallel port isn't a reliable source of it (especially on laptops), so... it has a keyboard pass-thru to steal some 5v

Interestingly, on that previous page it says it can capture still images of up to 1600x1200!

but this side says it has a 508x492 sensor, so I don't know about that chief.

the box just has the camera, cables, a CD-ROM, and a tiny manual, so I'm skipping to the good stuff: OPENING IT UP.

It's got a surprisingly big board for a webcam, but it IS a webcam from 1998, so...

So the camera daughterboard has only one chip on it, a Sanyo LC89901.

That's a CMOS Driver IC for 1/5" and 1/6" sensors.

Then we've got two of these Samsung ram chips.

Each are 512 kilobyte CMOS DRAMs, so an entire megabyte of RAM.

First up, an Alaris QV108-02A.

No datasheets on this thing. Date code of November 1998.
It's probably an ASIC/microcontroller that is doing the grunt work of converting the video data to something that can be shoved over the parallel port.

And then Sanyo LC99057LA8:
This is another one I can't find a direct datasheet on, but it's mentioned in a different datasheet.

It's a "color CCD camera CCD controller"

And this tiny thing is a CSI 24C01J: A 128 byte serial EEPROM.

This is probably used for some internal calibration settings or something?