Internals of the Camera
Here you are some internal photos of the camera (taken from other sites).
The QuickCam VC use a well documented SharpLZ2547 CCD and a "Alliace AS4C256K" memory (256Kbytes).
The USB version use a LucentUSS-720 that make the ieee1284<->USB bridge (datasheet is was freely available from Lucent, now i find the datasheet on Intel website).
Another integrated circuit is signed as Orbit61284A or 61509A (like in the photo).