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This is a bit of a long shot, but going back to 29th June 2006 a guest member ( Rob) added a photo of Girls in the co- op Ofice punching out the cards, is there anyway I can now many years later get to see this photo? #25 I was one of those girls thanks in advance
 
Jeannie said:
The carbon copy books went to the punch card room ,the numbers punched onto cards then moved onto a tabulator, all the info was then sorted into you particular number, once a year( I think ,) then your divi, was added to you co-op number for you to withdraw money from your book , my mums neighbour saved it and paid for the deposit on her house, , back in the 30’s lol
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Hi Jeannie, thanks for that. Do you know how did the tabulator worked?
 
Morturn said:
Hi Jeannie, thanks for that. Do you know how did the tabulator worked?
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Not sure now,but maybe the cards went through a sorting machine first,then the cards were stacked and printed on the tabulator with reams of paper printed with all divvi numbers and amounts, perhaps there is another member that worked these machines, must be a few as there were about 60 of us punch carding, a perc to the job and shhhhh keep this under your hat, but we used the punch card bits for wedding confetti and if there wasn’t a number on the slip of paper we were punching we added our own lol
Jeannie
 
397771 was my grandmothers number and the only reason I know it was because I was the one who nearly always answered the front door on a Saturday when the Co-op milkman came knocking for his money. It was written on a tag pinned to the inside of the front door at the end of the hall.
 
When I was young I remember seeing a number scratched into a brick in the wall right next to our back door after reading this thread I know now it was our co OP number as our milkman always came up our alley to the back door to get paid.he also had the famous brown leather bag with all his money in over his shoulder.we also had the provident lady come to the front of our house to get paid ,she was a German lady and if we seen her coming we had to tell our mum because sometimes when our mum had no money we had to tell the provident lady our mum was not in even though she was behind our door !!!!!!!!!!!
 
Pomgolian said:
Numbers...

:D My mom shopped at the Co-Op on Gt lister St and under no circumstances would she ever tell anyone except the manager of the shop her number, as I've said befor she trusted no one, but no one. Think she thought someone would try and pinch her 'Divvy' if they ever got hold of the number.
My brother-in-law worked at the Co-Op Funeral directers on the corner of Vauxhall Rd, or there-abouts for a number years,(he has some stories to tell about that if only I could get him on 'The Site'). :lol:

Postscript
Kandor can tell you what I say about my mom and her trusting no one with anything that is ' hers '. She can be really possessive of her property even at 85yrs. :lol:
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I well remember Mom's Co-op number. I used to rush to the back door when the milkman called to be paid. Dad had written it on the wall by the door, but I always wanted to show that I could remember it and tell him! I won't t say what it was because if I am ever asked for a six digit number ( as one can be for confidentiality) it is the ONLY number I never forget!!
 
Sugar said:
When I was young I remember seeing a number scratched into a brick in the wall right next to our back door after reading this thread I know now it was our co OP number as our milkman always came up our alley to the back door to get paid.he also had the famous brown leather bag with all his money in over his shoulder.we also had the provident lady come to the front of our house to get paid ,she was a German lady and if we seen her coming we had to tell our mum because sometimes when our mum had no money we had to tell the provident lady our mum was not in even though she was behind our door !!!!!!!!!!!
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When this happened in our house we spoke this Chinese word "Shintin" (She isn't in !) :D
 
Sugar said:
When I was young I remember seeing a number scratched into a brick in the wall right next to our back door after reading this thread I know now it was our co OP number as our milkman always came up our alley to the back door to get paid.he also had the famous brown leather bag with all his money in over his shoulder.we also had the provident lady come to the front of our house to get paid ,she was a German lady and if we seen her coming we had to tell our mum because sometimes when our mum had no money we had to tell the provident lady our mum was not in even though she was behind our door !!!!!!!!!!!
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Too funny I am sure many others can tell the same story from the milk man to the rent man and others.

In my mom's shop there were plenty of people that went on the door come Wednesday if the kids were going to eat, the door lead into the shop and was by the bacon slicer and stayed open during the day and mom would run a tab on the back of the door.
 
anthea said:
I think that maybe quite a few people who remember their mother's Co-op number use it for their passwords as I do.
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Anthia I know this is off topic but we do care about our members on this forum. Please do be extra careful with passwords like that. Hackers use a technique called brute force for passwords like yours. They just run through the combinations till they crack it. They use computer graphics cards to do this, three in a computer at a time. each one can do 44 billion permutations a second, so you password would be cracked in less than a millionth of a second.

PM me and Ill explain how to do a very strong password that's easy to remember
 
Sugar said:
When I was young I remember seeing a number scratched into a brick in the wall right next to our back door after reading this thread I know now it was our co OP number as our milkman always came up our alley to the back door to get paid.he also had the famous brown leather bag with all his money in over his shoulder.we also had the provident lady come to the front of our house to get paid ,she was a German lady and if we seen her coming we had to tell our mum because sometimes when our mum had no money we had to tell the provident lady our mum was not in even though she was behind our door !!!!!!!!!!!
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hi sugar your post takes me back and i dare say other members...our mom would often send us to the door to say to the provvy man "mom said she will double up next week" :D

lyn
 
Morturn said:
Anthia I know this is off topic but we do care about our members on this forum. Please do be extra careful with passwords like that. Hackers use a technique called brute force for passwords like yours. They just run through the combinations till they crack it. They use computer graphics cards to do this, three in a computer at a time. each one can do 44 billion permutations a second, so you password would be cracked in less than a millionth of a second.

PM me and Ill explain how to do a very strong password that's easy to remember
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Sound advice.
I also saw a mention of one password for everything. Not a good idea really. If they get it they have everything. I never 'save; passwords for sensitive sites such as banks, credit card and other 'money' web sites.

Mods; Sorry for off topic, but this is important and as Morturn says we should care for our other Members where we can.
 
Edifi said:
Have only ever used one pass word and that were I live and don't think anyone can think of that
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Unfortunately hackers also use a technique called a dictionary attack. Its basically a brute force attack that uses key or passphrase by trying hundreds or sometimes millions of likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary. These do take longer to crack, around two millionths of a second.

Remember that the teams in Bletchley Park were cracking 15 billion combination codes within a couple of hours in the 1940’s. Technology has move on slightly since then.
 
Vivienne14 said:
These must have replaced the dividend - a 1970s stamp saver book. Viv.
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The stamp scheme was still operating in the early 80s. My Mom was working for Sheldon Co-op at the time. When my grandad died I went with her to the Co-op Funeral directors in Ashtead Row to make arrangements and cringed when she asked the undertaker, at such a sensitive time, if she would get her stamps? - "of course he replied". My mom was quite innocent, she just said things without thinking! Like the time I told her that I had been to a funeral and she replied, "was it any one you knew" lol
 
For some reason, I remember our Co-Op number from all those decades ago whilst living in Aston - Although don't ask me how!
 
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17-18-40 engrained on my memory as is my service number, particularly using it every Friday morning to get my 28 shillings, "2453082 Sir" Essential to remember DOB which I have to declare on every visit to the eye hospital. I try to forget it otherwise.
 
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