God, the cost was probably horrid, but I was connecting in, setting tasks running and logging out. This was late 1999 in the UK, so per-minute prices were high.

God, the cost was probably horrid, but I was connecting in, setting tasks running and logging out. This was late 1999 in the UK, so per-minute prices were high. Also, these were Windows servers, so I had to sluggishly RDP into them, no nice low-bandwidth terminals.