Windows Phone Thoughts: Gizmodo in 1983?

Here's a great trip down memory lane for you older readers, and likely facial expressions of disbelief from anyone under the age of 25. Wonder what the gadget market was like in 1983? Wonder no more! Gizmodo takes you down memory lane with a great write-up of a few gadgets from 1983, like the GRiD Compass 1101 pictured above:

"First clamshell laptop compter. The Compass has a black magnesium alloy case, a gas plasma display, 384KB of memory, and for hacking while on the road, a lightning-fast 1200bps internal modem."

Being only eight years old at the time, I was playing with GI Joe's (Cobraaaa!), but I started getting into computers when I was about 10 years old, so much of this looks familiar to me.