I'm curious about Elsie's memory subsystem and how it's set up, especially so given its lack of VRAM SIMM provision? What's the spec on the four DRAM ICs on the LC board as shipped? Elsie has provision for memory Banks A & B whereas the LC had but that single bank of four soldered DRAM ICs as shipped.
Elsie Bank A: four TMS44400DM-80 - Asynchronous->5V FPM. 1,048,576-word BY 4-bit DRAM
LC shipped the same day as the IIsi with twice the main memory and dedicated 256K VRAM SIMM. The IIsi had only 1MB main memory and crappy Vampire Video sucking the life out of that. Might Elsie have been planned with future support for even more main memory in base config along with what's apparently Vampire Video?
I'm now wondering if multiple code names for Macs designated parallel development tracks?
Very, very cool front bezel case design, really love that angular (manual injection?) FDD opening. Much better than Apple's developing in house Espresso Design Language "Kissy Lips" implementation IMO.