Rotel. www.rotel.com. Introduction. Decades ago, an amplifier with 80 watts per channel (they were all two-channel amplifiers in those days), was considered a big amplifier. Now, 200 watts x 7 is common. Amplifiers of much higher power are also available.
Black Barbie first hit the shelves in 1980 â but with white features shared by many of the dolls following her. Todayâs launch prompted many black women to praise Mattel for its efforts.
Several years and many designs later, Mattel introduced Barbie, the Teen-Age Fashion Model, to skeptical toy buyers at the annual Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. Never before had they seen a doll so completely unlike the baby and toddler dolls popular at the time.