The Fool - a manager using a SPARCStation 413,1432 to run a screensaver.
The Magician - a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of him - - - all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.
The High Priestess - a woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on an Indigo behind her.
The Emperor - Steve Jobs sitting on a NeXT cube, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.
The Empress - A secretary with a NeXT Machine.
The Heirophant - Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.
The Lovers - a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.
The Chariot - A man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of Technology (black) and Culture (white).
Strength - A woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her head.
The Hermit - An old hacker, white - bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star - of - David flame illuminates his keyboard.
The Wheel of Fortune - A rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings - - a mouse, a turtle, a dog - cow, and a human - - look on.
Justice - A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete - key in the other.
The Hanged Man - A programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse - video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances.
Death - A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered PDP - 11s, Apple ]['s, IBM 360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.
Temperance - An angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.
The Devil - The goat - headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.
The Tower - An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are hurled to the ground.
The Star - A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.
The Moon - A wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.
The Sun - A naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a high - quality workstation.
Judgement - An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.
The World - A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3 - d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.
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