18 Jun 1937, Soviet pilots flew the ANT-25 from Moscow to get to Vancouver without any one landing. The crew consisted of three people: the commander V. P. Chkalov, co-pilot G. F. Baidukov and Navigator-A. V. Belyakov. On June 20 had made a successful landing in Vancouver (Washington). The length of the flight was 9130 km and the duration is 63 hours and 16 minutes. Upon arrival on the North American continent Soviet pilots personally met the 32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt. Already at Home the entire crew was awarded the order of red banner.
Attempt non-stop to get from the USSR to the USA was carried out before. In August 1935, a crew, consisting of S. Levanevsky, Baydukov and Levchenko, tried to reach the North American continent. However, the fault plane forced pilots to make an emergency landing.
Stamp mail of the USSR dedicated to the event June 18, 1937
On 18 June 2007 was a record range for communication using Wi-Fi. The experiment was conducted in Venezuela. Have Pietrosemoli Ermanno (Ermanno Pietrosemoli), President of Latin American networking Association Escuela Latinoamerica de Redes, managed to arrange a wireless connection between two nodes located at a distance of 382 kilometres from each other.
For placement of antennas was chosen two mountains in the Venezuelan Andes. Used equipment from Intel and Linksys. And at this distance was provided reliable communication at the rate of 3 Mbit/s According to Ermanno, all his experiments he conducts to promote Wi-Fi technology in small towns of developing countries.
Note that the previous record was 193 miles (310,6 km) and was installed between the computer and a balloon.
Ermanno Pietrosemoli and his team
18 Jun 2012 Microsoft released a tablet Surface. The device was delivered with either Windows RT or Windows 8 Pro. The model of the controlled first operating system, was assembled in a housing of magnesium alloy with a thickness of 9.3 mm. the weight of the device amounted to 676 grams. At a diagonal of 10.6 inches screen resolution was 1366×768 pixels. Plus used a protective glass Gorilla glass second generation. As for iron, the basis of Microsoft Surface lay system-on-chip Tegra 3 is a very powerful solution for those years.
Camera for Windows 8 Pro packaged with a low-voltage Core i5 processor generation Ivy Bridge. At the same diagonal, its resolution was increased to the standard today Full HD. However, the shell thickness increased to 13.5 mm, weight — 903 grams.
Time has shown that the first attempt from Microsoft came out lumpy. If the quality performance of the devices of special claims was not, all the bumps, as they say, stuffed operating system. Especially got Windows RT. The main claim — a very small number of software. Here hurriedly was not able to impose competition neither Google nor Apple. The second claim relates to nuisance control. In February 2015, Microsoft has announced that it will cease to support the release of devices based on Windows RT. However, much earlier from this operating system abandoned by almost all manufacturers of tablets and smartphones.
In July last year, Microsoft introduced Windows 10. Including version for mobile devices.
Microsoft Surface