The first two Sun Microsytems machines of the departement were Sun-2's. These machines were MC68010 based with a multibus backplane and SCSI disks. Around 1986 they were replaced by Sun-3's.
The Sun 3 family consists of a number of workstations and servers; The important characteristics:
Extract from "Sun-3 Architecture, A Sun Technical Report, Revised August 1986" : 1 Hardware Architecture
The departement did use following machine types:
Sun-3 servers
| Model | Processor | Memory | Mips |
| Sun 3 -160 | MC 68020 | max 16 Mb | 2 |
| Sun 3 - 180 | MC 68020 | max 16 Mb | 2 |
| Sun 3 - 280 | MC 68020 | max 64Mb | 4 |
Sun-3 workstations
| Model | Processor | Memory | Mips |
| Sun 3-50 | MC 68020 | 4 Mb | 1.5 |
| Sun 3-60 | MC 68020 | 4 Mb (max 24 Mb) | 3 |
| Sun 3-75 | MC 68020 | 4 Mb (max 16 Mb) | 2 |
| Sun 3-110 | MC 68020 | 16 Mb | 2 |
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