Hi there. I had a Plus in storage for years from a friend and decided earlier in the year to use it for music, but I lost the keyboard and mouse here somewhere. Since I had meanwhile bought a lot of old 68k mac software I decided it was more economical to buy a cheap SE which was on offer rather than set up the Plus. I too learned that Localtalk is an easy way to put software on the SE. I use my 8600 as a server and just connect them together with a single serial cable. The transfer speed is plenty fast for the file sizes involved. Found an old MOTU Fastlane MIDI interface which I forgot I had and I was off sequencing.

As for Localtalk software, I think it is AppleShare 2.0.1. I found that it works best using the printer port for Localtalk and the modem port for MIDI.