dead emission/absorption spectrophotometer

Hi folks,

I recently read Stephen Tonkin's excellent book on amateur spectroscopy
and that has really set the little grey cells working.

Many years ago I happened aquire (for about 10 GBP), a very dead
"Instrumentation Laboratory model 951 AE/AS spectrophotometer". In fact
I always claimed it was a present for my wife, but she doesn't mind me
taking it to pieces now..

The optical systems are all intact, though the detection system is late
1970s vintage.

My question is simply, is it likely that it could form the basis of a
fibre fed spectrograph ?

Obviously it needs a new linear CCD array and some serious hacking, but
is there any fundamental reason why it shouldn't be adaptable ?

Comments, helpful preferably, would be much appreciated !

Steve