Then we will need to transfer that file to the Power Mac G3. According to this page the license is free, but you can not re-distribute. That includes the Macintosh Plus software and links to download System 6.0.8 can also be found here. Actually the disk images are still hosted on Apple's website. The goal of this project is to help preserve software that was made for early Macintosh computers running on Motorola 68000 processors.
To start with we are going to download the System 6 boot floppy disk image from the internet by using a modern computer. This is the website of the Gryphel Project. This is also the reason that only a Macintosh that is equipped with such a drive (like this Power Mac G3) will be able to successfully write disk images that can be read back by the floppy disk that is inside the Macintosh Plus computer. You can hear that while you are formatting the floppy disk.
This floppy drive also uses variable-speed while reading and writing to the disks. The Macintosh Plus was released with a 800K disk drive, so you could only use Double Density floppy disks. There might be other ways to do this, but this method proved to be working for me. For that purpose I will be using a Power Macintosh G3 which is running OS 9.2. It is possible to find one on ebay or some other place, but it is also an option to create one yourself. In order to boot into the operating system you need a Macintosh System 6 boot disk. If you are lucky, you might have an external hard drive that has already been preinstalled with a suitable OS and boot from it. If you don't have it, you won't be able to do anything with it. When you turn this Mac on it will just give you this icon with a question mark expecting a suitable operating system boot disk. Besides that it also shows how to get some software to run on this computer. This blog post takes a closer look at the Macintosh Plus and show how to create a System Boot floppy disk.
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