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Great day yesterday at Grovelands Community Primary School with Year 6 students. We loved all the students questions!

🎉⚡ Pokémon is 30! ⚡🎉

From the days of **Pokémon Red and Green** to today’s global adventures, Pokémon has been bringing Trainers together for three amazing decades.

Here’s to 30 years of catching ’em all! 🌍✨

Who was your first starter? 🔥🌊🌱

Did you have a flip phone?

Another donation for the bus collection from the wonderful Mobile Galaxy in Heathfield. #sonyericsson #mobilephonerepair

So we just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to all who support Retro Reset!

Thank you!

We have had quite a few donations recently. 4 screens, 1 tv, 2 laptops, 1 computer and two printers!

All will be used on the bus and keeps us going.

In addition to our normal workshops we are about to trial a club and also start some new lessons on AI and E-waste.

New Binatone, who remembers playing on one of these?📟🕹️

Operations meeting! ☕️⛓️‍💥🕹️

The bus is off to Bognor Regis on Saturday 14th March to support Dabble at the Arun Games Fest! 😀🕹️💾

• Likely age groups: 9–16 years and 16–25 years
📩 Please send us a private message if you, or someone you know, might be .interested, we’d love to hear from you.
Your interest will help us shape these sessions and make sure they meet the needs of our community. Thank you for your support 💙

🚌 What we’re offering:
• Small, friendly groups (up to 8 young people)
• Hands-on access to our retro tech and gaming equipment
• Experience old computers and programming
• Experience repurposed computers and laptops running AI
• A calm, supportive environment

Assuming we hear from enough young people, Sessions will be on Monday evenings at a local venue where there will be a relaxed, welcoming space on the bus for young people to enjoy retro technology and gaming.

🌟 Trial Retro Reset Sessions for Neurodiverse Young People 🌟
We’re exploring the idea of running small, inclusive Retro Reset sessions for neurodiverse young people in and around Heathfield and would love to gauge interest.

Thank you for making us feel so welcome, and for a fantastic day of learning and exploring retro tech. We loved bringing the bus along and sharing the experience with you all. Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

It was such a pleasure to run a Retro Reset workshop for the home education group at Bushwood and in Hailsham yesterday. The students were absolutely lovely—so enthusiastic, curious, and engaged throughout the session. 🚍💻

Launched in 1982, it sold over 12 million units and introduced a whole generation to coding, gaming, and that iconic SID sound chip.
Many modern game developers wrote their first-ever lines of code on one. 💾✨

Retro Fact of the Day:
Before PCs took over, the Commodore 64 ruled the world — and it still holds the crown as the best-selling computer ever. 👑

Legacy: Its design and the programming language it used were influential, with the project and the computer’s architecture leading to the development of ARM processors, which became a dominant force in mobile computing.

Impact: The BBC Micro was hugely popular, especially in the educational market, with an estimated 80% of British schools using one by 1985.

Purpose: It was the centerpiece of the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project, which aimed to teach the public about computers through television programs, software, and hands-on experience with the BBC Micro.

Launch: The machine was released in December 1981, though widespread delivery was delayed until 1982 due to production issues.

Launched as part of the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project, this popular machine was designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in 1981 and played a significant role in bringing computing into British schools and homes.

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the BBC Microcomputer! nicknamed the “Beeb”.

Look at this donation from Mike! Straight on the retro bus demonstrating how to reuse old kit and avoid ewaste

This gear will be put to great use in our workshops, inspiring the next generation to think creatively about technology and sustainability.
Thank you so much, Mike — your support means the world to us and helps keep the Retro Reset mission rolling! 🚍💙

His generous donation includes:
💠 A MacBook Air now running Deepin OS
💠 A Dell XPS 12 transformed with ChromeOS
💠 A Canon Pixma IP90 mobile printer
💠 An Nvidia Tegra Note Android tablet
💠 A Google Nest

These devices will help us show young people exactly what can be achieved by giving older tech a new life — loading alternative operating systems, repurposing hardware, and reducing e-waste in the process. ♻️💻