Interesting that he mentions the Dave Smith Instruments (now Sequential) Prophet 12. I have a Prophet P08, and have opened it up to repair it, and it is a work of design elegance. It contains five boards, each connected via an easily removed ribbon cable, attached to a metal body with just a few screws. You can trivially remove all the boards, and in fact I did exactly this to ship the boards to the company for a minor repair rather than shipping the entire unit.
Another work of design beauty was the NeXTstation, NeXT's pizza-box shaped workstation. A solid magnesium case with an elegant molded heat sink on bottom, opens with a single screw in the back. Inside there's a fan (two screws), a power supply attached directly to the case over the heat sink (one screw), a mount for the floppy drive (one screw), a mount for the hard drive (one screw), and the motherboard (one or two screws). And that's it -- that's the entire thing! You can break down the entire machine in less than five minutes. Did I mention it's made of solid magnesium?
Another work of design beauty was the NeXTstation, NeXT's pizza-box shaped workstation. A solid magnesium case with an elegant molded heat sink on bottom, opens with a single screw in the back. Inside there's a fan (two screws), a power supply attached directly to the case over the heat sink (one screw), a mount for the floppy drive (one screw), a mount for the hard drive (one screw), and the motherboard (one or two screws). And that's it -- that's the entire thing! You can break down the entire machine in less than five minutes. Did I mention it's made of solid magnesium?
How NeXT/Apple has fallen.