The yellow wires are normal - that's a factory rework. Almost all 1200s have them.
P9B is your clockport... sort of. Most machines have pins only on the right side of that header. The connector on yours looks different. It could be another factory oddity. The clockport and the P9A header on the opposite side of the RAM chips were originally intended to support a 1MB chip RAM expansion, but were made redundant when Commodore decided to ship all 1200s with 2MB of Chip RAM instead of 1MB.
The other empty solder pads in that area were meant for an onboard clock.
See photo
here.