ken -

facts have no place on an internet forum! (smiley, laugh, chuckle).

yes, i would like to know if it was a building computer, where it was used, how it was used.

and the notion of it being pagan and then dropped - that does'nt make sense. if it was useful the church would have just co-opted it like it did with all the other symbology, sacred dates, festivals, etc. throughout the ages... there'd simply be a pope or a cathedral or a saint inlaid in the circle, and history would have been tweaked and re-written to make sense out of the 12 rings (tribes, apostles, you name it), etc. etc. etc.

-mike