Ah I have one of those. It's a single rigid clear sheet with dome shapes like an extra thick blister pack, probably made by vacuum forming. Something like 1mm thick, maybe thicker but I think not quite 1/16" say.
It's loose and has no attachment points, so it's either just for sitting on a desk like a dust cover or has to be held on by some other kind of case that traps everything if carrying around, unless you wanted velcro on the top of your 100. When in place the raised dome shapes don't touch either the screen or the keys, all contact is only around the perimeter and a line across the middle between the screen & keyboard. It wraps down the sides a little too so it's registered from moving up down left right. When in place it would prevent anything else in a case from scuffing the screen or pressing the keys, and does not touch either the screen or keys itself either. When not in place it's a letter sized loose object with no home you have to stick somewhere. Putting it underneath just raises the 100 up 1/2" off the table and does not improve your life, unless you are maybe using a 100 on the same table where you are cleaning fish. If you have the peg legs, then it does convert those 2 points of contact into a full sheet size contact, so you could use the peg legs on your lap or other uneven surface. Mine is neither cracked nor even yellow so the material is pretty good stuff. bkw On Sat, Oct 18, 2025, 1:34 AM Scott McDonnell <[email protected]> wrote: > No, it was not that. But that color scheme is way too cool. > > I will see if I can find the ad again. It was in a Portable 100 mag. > > > Here it is: > [image removed] On 10/17/2025 7:20 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > > Maybe it's like the rigid wood & vinyl cover for NEC? > > There is a case for PC-8201 that looks kinda like a binder. But it's > really a tight fitting full plywood box, 1/4 inch 3-ply plywood covered in > padded vinyl and with a lid that opens like a book and held on/closed by > snaps. > > The lid can be folded underneath either flat or holding the computer > tilted, or removed altogether. > > https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/1154520516 > > > > > On 10/17/25 17:17, Scott McDonnell wrote: > > I was thinking (and maybe the originals did do this) that maybe it could > be designed to fold into a tilt stand when opened up. The ads claimed it > was leather (probably psuedo leather with cardboard inside). Unfortunately > the scans were old B&W scans where images turn into a mostly black blob, so > I could make out enough detail to figure out how it attached to the M100. > > > I have tried image searches to see if there might be any real pictures of > it online, but have come up empty. > > > On 10/17/2025 3:46 PM, Brian White wrote: > > Now that binder idea is cool. > > bkw > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:08 PM scottgmcdonnell <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I picked up one of the bags OP suggested because $8 is hard to > beat. Some hardboard panels might enhance them. > > I do store some of my especially valuable or rare equipment in the > waterproof tough cases, though. Too expensive to do that for > everything. > > I actually received some items recently that came in those old > caselogic equipment bags and went down a rabbit hole trying to > find modern versions. Camera bags come the closest, but nothing > really close anymore. These bags were nice because they typically > had zippered holes for feeding cables through. > > Lastly, when I 2as going through old mags, there used to be a > cover for the Model 100 much like the tablet covers today. The > pictures were too terrible to see how they attached, but it looks > like they attached to the back somehow and folded over the screen, > almost like putting the M100 in a binder. Which actually had me > thinking about grabbing a binder to build a replica. Anyone seen > this cover in the real world? > > Scott > > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Date: 10/17/25 1:15 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] A thick-enough laptop bag > > I'm late to the party on this one, but I had a need some time back > to find a bag for my 8201a computers. I went outside the box and > looked at tool bags. > > BOSCH #2610937783 > > It woks quite well. Sometimes you can find them cheap. I'm sure > there are others of similar size. > > Kurt > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2025, at 2:01 AM, B 9 wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM Joshua O'Keefe > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope this is helpful rather than irksome for others. > Protecting these systems for the long run while still making > them easily available for use is important to us all. > > Definitely helpful to me. I have no covers for my T200s and this > got me thinking about what I need. > > —b9 > > > > >
