Double the Storage, Redux

Digging deeper, it appears that at least one of the ad hoc Kodak DSLRs prior to the DSC-14n had dual card slots. This was the DSC-7xx series, which were built in 1999-2001 off of Nikon F5 chassis.

They were 6MP cameras back in the day when that was a crazy high resolution for digital cameras, and featured a brace of Compact Flash slots, blowing my theory for the original reason behind dual slots.

Of course, back in that time period, 128MB and 512MB Compact Flash cards were exotic and expensive and a 6MP camera could fill one of those up in a hurry shooting like a photojournalist. And in an era when these DSLRs cost $8000 and didn't always match the resolution of a good film camera, photojournalists were pretty much the majority of the users.
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